Monthly Archives: January 2009
Tim Minchin Is Generous: See His Own Non-Pirate Storm: Updated
Tim Minchin has uploaded his own, well-produced, version of Storm with excellent musical accompaniment. Why isn’t this man one of the celebs involved in Science, So What? Continue reading
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Science: So What? campaign overplays the evidence on childhood nutrition and health
It’s great to see the government making an effort to get people talking about science with the Science: So What? campaign. However, we were disappointed to see them overstating the evidence on childhood health and obesity. Along with lots of … Continue reading
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The Curse of the Monkey’s Paw Lives On – Poor Dr John Marks
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford continues to use the names of Dr John Marks and Professor Andre Tylee as endorsements of him and his work, long after they have made it clear to him that they wish this use of their names and reputations to stop. Why isn’t he using the names of his new colleagues? I think we should be told. Continue reading
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Sue Arnold Praises Patrick Holford’s How to Quit, in the Guardian
Sue Arnold has published a disappointingly credulous review of Patrick Holford and David Miller’s How to Quit without Feeling S**t in the Guardian. The Guardian. And it’s not April 1. Continue reading
Totally Nourish using Food Intolerance Week to advertise Maharani ‘gluten free rice’
Although Holford is currently hoping to collaborate with an (as yet unknown to us) university – to (try to) research treatments for schizophrenia – we are not impressed by his learning. Given that we pulled apart the advertising of Maharani … Continue reading
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Barry Groves’ Second Opinions website loses honcode accreditation
Following the Telegraph and Victoria Lambert’s credulous coverage of the ‘nutritionist’ Barry Groves’ beliefs about diet, we submitted a complaint to the Health on the Net Foundation – who had certified Groves’ site Second Opinions site as Hon Code compliant. … Continue reading
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Patrick Holford Is Selling Gluten-Free Rice – Eh?
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford and his crack team of IONistas have been responsible for an extraordinary number of mistakes about basic facts relating to nutrition recently. They are promoting Maharani Rice because it is gluten-free and has a glycemic index (GI) of 52. Which might be impressive if rice were not already gluten-free and basmati rice didn’t already have a GI of 58. Continue reading
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Patrick Holford: “conventional medicine, doesn’t have a very good track record”
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford announces that “conventional medicine, doesn’t have a very good track record”. You might think that you need some strong evidence to match the strength of that claim but it doesn’t seem as if Holford thinks so. Oddly enough, he uses these claims to justify his recommendation that you should purchase his services, services that don’t seem to represent value for money, judging by the inaccuracies contained in his writings. Continue reading
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Holford and Burne’s Food is Better Medicine than Drugs is “packed with sound science and statistics”, according to the Daily Mail
Lydia Slater, writing in the Daily Mail, argues that Burne and Holford’s book Food is Better Medicine than Drugs is one of the “best of the New Year diet books”. It claims that the book is “packed with sound science … Continue reading
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Durham fish oil (non)trial: when is a control group not a control group?
In response to a FOIA request, Durham has told us about another significant flaw in their fish oil (non)trial: the ‘treatment’ arm was students with more than 80% reported compliance with supplementation with Equazen fish oil pills; the ‘control groups … Continue reading
