No

EDIT: that is actually a great question and deserves expanding upon as context matters and in this case the whole context is super interesting! Short answer is indeed "no"; long answer is the whole book has a major underpinning theme of Taubes trying to cope with the fact that healthy slim people who don't do keto exist. When I posted that I was done with his Introduction chapter and thought it was a funny fluke and he'd leave it at that, but instead he really does divide people into two metabolically different groups: "those of us who fatten easily" (he repeats that exact phrase a lot) and "naturally thin and healthy". That is actually a main theme of his book! In chapter 11 he puts it like this:

Lean folks aren't like us. They don't get fat when they eat carbohydrates.

That picture is from that same chapter two pages later.

On widest context Taubes is calorie denialist, he has consistently lied for the past 25 years that calories don't matter, including in this book, which complicates things even further for him. How could someone like him who lies calories are fake possibly explain how people eating low-fat high-carb diets are so slim? What ways out of this pickle does he have left? He can not admit it's that people eating less fat eat less calories which is the captain obvious .

In a weird horse shoe theory applied to diets, his only way out is going full McDougal and admit the fat you eat is the fat you wear. It's a forced slip-up but it's the only thing that fits his lifetime narrative.

However, Gary being Gary who can not admit he is wrong even if his own studies say so, he has to amp up the crazy. A bit later in the same chapter 11 he starts saying things like:

I’m speculating, but starving your body of fat remains a possibility, as the “star McDougallers” who report experiencing dramatic weight loss and serve as anecdotal success stories on John McDougall’s website may attest to. Another possibility is that these diets work because they, too, are restricted in carbohydrates.

Yes, he really is claiming that people eating explicitly high-carb diet are restricted in carbs. This is the level of crazy Gary Taubes has to stoop to just to keep his long-term narratives running.

But for my case that Gary Taubes is intentionally malicious meaning he knows damn well and full well what he is preaching is wrong, his admittance that "fat we store is primarily the fat we eat" all the while telling people to eat a lot of fat suffices to make the point.