Comments on: Fishy business in The Times: would this have got past them if they were eating enough oily fish? http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/ The truth about Patrick Holford, media nutritionist Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Patrick Holford -a professor? http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:30:19 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/#comment-961 [...] came the even more mind-boggling news that Patrick Holford had been made a visiting professor at the University of Teesside. What on [...]

]]> By: An update on the Times’ Food for Thought article « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:36:50 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/#comment-932 [...] 16th, 2007 · No Comments I’ve previously criticised a Times article, which quoted Holford as an authority on nutrition mental health, and included some distinctly [...]

]]> By: Shinga http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:42:59 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/#comment-724 On balance, I don’t think that The Times should, uncritically, reproduce a claim that they have not verified, e.g., the number of supportive studies on FFTB.

These inaccuracies seem small but they do distort people’s understanding of the existence of evidence for such claims.

]]> By: Shinga http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-723 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:37:03 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/#comment-723 One must assume that this is honorary in keeping with the honorary Dip. ION. However, I’m sure that, if pushed/convinced there is something in it for them, one of the UK’s most consistently failing universities (one perhaps that endorses the Dip. ION) might be persuaded to confer an honorary PhD or DPhil…

]]> By: UKDietitian http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-716 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:11:39 +0000 http://holfordwatch.info/2007/08/03/fishy-business-in-the-times-would-this-have-got-past-them-if-they-were-eating-enough-oily-fish/#comment-716 You quote The Times:
“Patrick Holford, the author of several books on nutrition and a visiting professor at the University of Teesside”

Do you think this should have read

“Patrick Holford, the author of several books on nutrition and visiting a professor at the University of Teesside”

This makes more sense, as many of Patricks ION friends are based in the NorthEast, where the children (allegedly) are all deficient in Equazen and Nairns OatCakes.
Patrick Holford does not hold any qualifications that would entitle him to a ‘Professorship’. Unless his ION has now started to confer PhDs so he can first become a ‘Doctor’……

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