‘Alternative’ nutritionism marketed by British media nutritionists would not be a helpful import to South Africa
Entries Tagged as ‘AIDS’
June 27, 2008
‘Dr’ Holford on the immune system in the Galway Advertiser
Here at HolfordWatch, we were interested to see the Galway Advertiser referring the ‘Dr Patrick Holford’: Holford is not a doctor. The paper has been contacted about this – and we are sure that Holford himself will be keen to see this error corrected. However, there are also a number of other significant problems with [...]
November 15, 2007
Holford on Tour: at last, South Africa has the help they need!
The excellent Moonflake blog has just posted to point out that Holford has featured on the KFM breakfast show (in the Cape). All I can say that, given South Africa’s problems with HIV/AIDS, their President’s unfortunate stance on evidence-based treatments for HIV/AIDS, and the wonderful contribution that the orthomolecular medicine pioneer and vitamin hero Matthias [...]
November 9, 2007
Private Eye: may contain nuts
‘Ratbiter’ has an excellent piece in Private Eye. In an article headlined May contain nuts, they ask Who is Patrick Holford, the British media’s favourite ‘nutritionist’? (issue 1197, p. 29). The article begins with a critical look at some of Holford’s statements on vitamin C and HIV/AIDS, and also discusses one of Holford’s disagreement with [...]
October 11, 2007
Holford denies AIDS/vitamin C claims, again, and accuses Prof Colquhoun of having invented them
In a letter on the Guardian website, Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University responds to Prof Colquhoun’s article on Endarkenment. Holford states that an example nutritional claim “given [in Colquhoun's article], apparently made by me, that ‘vitamin C is better than conventional drugs to treat AIDS’ is [Colquhoun's] own invention”. Strangely, though, in this very [...]
August 6, 2007
For Holford, “vitamin C has been shown to outperform AZT in lab studies”
When touring South Africa, Holford was most upset at accusations he had “been saying that Vitamin C is more effective in treating AIDS than the anti-retroviral drug AZT. This is not true. I have never made this claim, nor will I because there is no evidence that this is true.” I am not convinced that [...]
April 30, 2007
Why I’m not McCarthyite (boring, obvious response to Holford)
Holford has e-mailed me a number of criticisms of Holford Watch. I’ve already responded to most of these, but he raises a lot of points – some of which I probably ought to address here. Holford complains that I “first portray Mathias Rath as an arch villain without any consideration of the fact that the [...]
April 24, 2007
E-mail from Patrick Holford
Patrick Holford has e-mailed me with some comments about, and responses to, this website – and asked me to publish them here. I’m therefore pleased to reproduce his e-mail below (in full and unedited), but will first give a few links to put this in context. The post about Burne, Rath and HIV/AIDS that Holford [...]
April 21, 2007
More on Burne, Holford, Rath and HIV/AIDS
UPDATE: Patrick Holford has been in touch to clarify his position – emphasising that nutritional approaches to HIV/AIDS should be used “alongside medication”, and stating that he has “never advised anyone to stop taking, or not to take ARVs”. Obviously, this is extremely welcome – I’ve e-mailed Holford to ask for some further details, but [...]
April 2, 2007
Holford co-author applauds Matthias Rath
UPDATE: I have now reviewed some of the questions around this issue, in response to an e-mail criticising my approach. You can read the latest post on this here. Jerome Burne – science journalist, and co-author of Holford’s Food is Better Medicine than Drugs – has allegedly been seen applauding Matthias Rath at a rally [...]
