Last weekend, Ben Goldacre discussed some of the benefits of blogs over the mainstream media. As if to confirm this, yesterday Female First – a ‘Celebrity Gossip Magazine’ – has ran a credulous report on Holford’s views on statins. Bad enough in itself, but exactly these claims were thoroughly fisked on HolfordWatch on May 29th. Oh dear…
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Even worse – it’s truncated in the sidebar to “Why statins should not be prescribed”! I have left my two cents on the matter in the Comments box.
Thanks Ted – yes, it was somewhat unfortunate. Good to see a critical comment on the article.
How ridiculous. A simple google search would have brought this up and saved everyone the nonsense.
Echoing JonHW, good to see critical commentary following PH into the bastions of celebrity/shopping/gossip mindlessness. I fantasise about a crack team of scientifically literate women taking to task the editors of women’s magazines who continually and uncritically promote such people.
I thought that the women of Inky Circus were going to do something like that but it has never transpired. I don’t know if that is because women’s magazines would be more unreceptive than most other media – possibly because their advertisers would object?
Shrugs – who understands the ways of advertisers?