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From a legal POV, yes I am well within fair use.
Specifically:
1. This is clearly a non-profit educational use of the material.

2. Only a tiny portion of the figures in the paper — this is a Cell paper after all, dense enough to prevent light from escaping — is shown here.

3. If you were going to pay to read the article, what I posted isn’t enough to dissuade you from doing so.

Posting the full PDF would be clearly out of bounds; this is quite mild in comparison.

From an ethical point of view, I’ve clearly cited the source of these figures, and I’ve not claimed credit for the work; this isn’t plagiarism. From a utilitarian point-of-view, I’ve provided publicity for the authors, the study, the field of research, the results and the Journal itself.

Whew. Enough defensive posturing.

My question to you: Isn’t it ethically repugnant to commercially copyright — and prevent the public from accessing for decades — the results of publicly funded research?

Are you even partially concerned about your use of Cell’s figures? I know you will point out the fair use clause related to publishing in general, but you present a lot of copyrighted material here!

Thank-you for reading.

Here is a decent review covering the endocrine regulation of energy balence.

For the claim that weight is genetically regulated, there are many many studies. Among the most recent is one following monozygotic and dizygotic twins to age 18.

The increase in obesity is from WHO and CDC stats. Pretty shocking, eh?

For the strict regulation of how much we eat is mostly from that review, and some seminars I’ve attended at the UW.

The resetting of the endocrine system to maintain a higher weight in Obese individuals was also mostly from seminars.

For the fat-and-fit notion, there are also several studies. One recently demonstated that obese individuals who are active have less visceral fat–the kind of fat that causes the most grief.

Hope this helps.

Do you have any citations for the claims made in the first three paragraphs of your post? I’m not necessarily disputing them, just curious about the source.

all best,

. j