You should have read ALL of it. Gary Taubes is NOT pushing drugs. He’s been a vocal proponent of treating diabetes with low carb diets for years. His 2008 book Good Calories, Bad Calories is what caused me to try going low carb - with huge health benefits that followed.
If his advice was promoted 15 years ago, a lot fewer people would ahve died during COVID.
Very low carb is how I went from pre-diabetes to 5.4 A1C ie no diabetes.
I’m still no diabetes