Dr. Shawn Baker
Orthopedic surgeon · carnivore-diet advocate ('The Carnivore Diet')
A real orthopedic surgeon and prominent carnivore entrepreneur, but with no nutrition-research record and a heavy financial stake in his claims. Judged on independent evidence his signature positions run against settled physiology — the human dietary vitamin C requirement and LDL/ApoB causality are among the best-established facts in medicine, and his LDL-is-fine support traces to the single retracted-flagship Feldman-Norwitz network; his fibre claim is a narrow true exception (idiopathic constipation) dressed up as a rule.
Evidence vs. their claims
Across 1 testable claims, where the weight of independent evidence lands — on their side, or against them. Their own research network is excluded as evidence.
Read relative to their stance: when they dispute a claim and the evidence supports that claim, it counts as against them. Each row shows their stance, so you can see which way the evidence cuts.
Conflicts of interest
- Co-founder/CMO of Revero (carnivore telehealth) and founder of MeatRx/carnivore.diet coaching — revenue tied directly to the diet he promotes
- Does NOT clear the 'real scientist with published work' bar: board-trained orthopedic surgeon, but no peer-reviewed nutrition research; his diet output is a trade book, podcast and coaching platform
- Verified New Mexico Medical Board action (2017, license MD2006-0659): a Stipulation and Order for Voluntary Surrender of License with Permanent Restriction on Reapplication, on the board's stated grounds of incompetence to practice and failure to report an adverse action — he may not reapply in NM without proving clinical-skills competency (his own account differs and claims later out-of-state reinstatement, unverified)
Stated factually. Conflicts do not by themselves make a claim wrong; they are context for weighing it.
Claim-by-claim (1)
Grouped by health topic. A person's claims often span several areas — here's where each one lands.
Educational only, not medical advice. Verdicts grade the evidence, not the person; see the methodology.