Comments on: The Scotsman reproduces a Standard article – correcting its ‘Dr Holford’ error, but still with lots of dubious claims

By: jonhw

jonhw — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:47:09 +0000

Jenny – sorry that you don’t like that we ‘use all these words’. It’s pretty tedious to argue about the authority – let alone about who earns most money – so what do you think are the main strengths of this article, then?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:32:41 +0000

It makes me laugh how you all think you’re so good and use all those words like you think you’re above her: “Blissett’s dire article”.

I wonder if you know what Bella does now? She works for Grazia as health and beauty writer – she has at least one article published every week – she lives in a maisonette above a bakery just off High Street Kensington.

I’m sorry, what do you lot do for a living? Put down other people’s articles to make you feel better about your own miserable lives? Yes. That was it.

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Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:02:05 +0000

[...] I thought that – when the Scotsman published Blissett’s dire article on Holford a while after the Standard – it was just letting its standards slip, and running a poor-quality cast-off from the [...]

By: jonhw

jonhw — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:53:40 +0000

Thanks for contacting the Scotsman. By a wonderful coincidence, look at the pills for sale with Holford's face on them...

By: jdc325

jdc325 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:13:37 +0000

Have emailed them to praise the comments and bemoan their closing commenting on the article. I particularly praised pv’s point about Holford, Vit C and AIDS.

PS – have you heard about PH promoting propionyl carnitine for heart health? Does anyone know which companies sell P. Carnitine?

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:27:04 +0000

Thanks for the contact details. Having also recently seen this – http://living.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=1705442007 – I think I feel a diatribe coming on.