Comments on: Is Holford Teesside’s Professor of Nutrition?

By: jonhw

jonhw — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:34:55 +0000

It’s curious, isn’t it. Especially as this starts to get more coverage in the mainstream media, one would hope that Teesside do choose to clarify the situation.

By: Wulfstan

Wulfstan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:11:43 +0000

Is Teesside under the impression that if they continue to ignore the elephant in the room, everybody else will cease to notice that they have to divert around it? I wonder if this is having any impact on the practices of some of the very fine scholars that they do have in Teesside? You're behind the times, apparently Holford is now elevated even further.

She avoids any confrontation with nutritional medicine, thus saving herself from the venomous fangs of his Royal Vitamin-ness Patrick Holford.

From a nasty review of Shapiro and her book but, like the skittish pole-cat, bowel-whisperer stuff, it shows that people in SA have a vigorous way with a phrase. Speaking of vigorous phrases, is Ben Goldacre going to discuss 'nutritional medicine' in his book (whenever it appears)? Does anybody know?

By: gimpy

gimpy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:30 +0000

You are quite right, a google search of the University of Teesside site reveals only one mention of Mr Holford and that dates before he became Professor Holford. There does seem to be a great deal of unknown unknowns here and a statement is clearly needed.