Comments on: Professor Patrick Holford and the Mainstream Media: A Love Story?

By: Ciaran Ryan

Ciaran Ryan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:58:17 +0000

This website is [obscenity redacted] created by the British corporate science lobby to discredit and slander those who offer alternatives to pharmacuetical based medicine. It misquotes and creates false stories in order to distort facts and discredit those with genuine interests in public health so as they may have minimal effect on the profits of big pharma. Fortunately it doesn't seem to be working. Admin edit: although this is in violation of our commenting policy, we let it through after editing it for obscenity. Note the lack of evidenced rebuttal for anything we write or any examples of the misquoting or false stories.

By: Ben Goldacre Usually Gets The Science Wrong: Patrick Holford Speaks From His Own Reality « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:45:46 +0000

[...] In general, it seems unedifying and unhelpful to debate someone who believes in their own rhetorical brilliance (aka, shifting goal-posts and failures of understanding) and takes it upon himself to question other people’s scholarship while manifestly displaying poor scholarship that has been documented in detail. Being upbraided by Holford on such matters is the approximate equivalent to being lectured by Jordan on the need for decorum and bodily modesty. Holford’s recent tantrums have revealed much about Holford’s typical strategies. More than ever, it seems incomprehensible that Holford should have any standing with mainstream media. [...]

By: Holford tries to respond to questions raised by BBC documentary. He fails. « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:54:03 +0000

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