Comments on: Food for the Brain: Child Survey: Review Part 10 http://holfordwatch.info/2008/02/11/food-for-the-brain-child-survey-review-part-10/ The truth about Patrick Holford, media nutritionist Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Economist: The End of a Childhood Illusion « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science http://holfordwatch.info/2008/02/11/food-for-the-brain-child-survey-review-part-10/comment-page-1/#comment-12956 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:28:43 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/?p=351#comment-12956 [...] Holford Watch appeals for help to Professor Holford and two members of the Scientific Advisory Board who approved this report and then looks at the data and analyses: Food for the Brain Child Survey 2007: Review Part 7 Food for the Brain Child Survey 2007: Review Part 8 Why Don’t Food for the Brain Report Their Survey Results on Supplement Pills Survey: Review Part 9 Food for the Brain Child Survey 2007: Review Part 10 [...]

]]> By: Our Original Questions to Patrick Holford About the Food for the Brain Child Survey 2007 « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science http://holfordwatch.info/2008/02/11/food-for-the-brain-child-survey-review-part-10/comment-page-1/#comment-8977 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:31:28 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/?p=351#comment-8977 [...] concise was not your over-riding problem: we have commented on this in several places, notably in Food for the Brain: Child Survey: Review Part 10. The way in which the authors calculate the impact of foodstuffs on behaviour and academic [...]

]]> By: tifosi246 http://holfordwatch.info/2008/02/11/food-for-the-brain-child-survey-review-part-10/comment-page-1/#comment-8285 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:39:54 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/?p=351#comment-8285 I’m currently reading Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (originally published in 1841). One chapter lists various petitions for share issues in companies related to the South Sea Bubble, one of which is:

For carrying on an undertaking of great advantage; but nobody to know what it is.

Apparently in just 6 hours, the originator of this scheme sold 1000 shares at £2 each (in 1720′s money).
The obscure way this FFTB report has written, I can’t help but think its authors are taking a leaf from the stock book of this sage of the South Sea Bubble. Hopefully, your merciless thoroughness here will prevent government or other policymakers paying up their £2 worth in 2008 money.

]]> By: Claire http://holfordwatch.info/2008/02/11/food-for-the-brain-child-survey-review-part-10/comment-page-1/#comment-8284 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:35:00 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/?p=351#comment-8284 It seems the purpose was hype…sorry, ‘hypothesis-generating’, explained here:
http://dcscience.net/?p=218

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