Tag Archives: Bad Science
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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Does Patrick Holford Lack Generosity of Spirit As Well As Scholarly Accuracy?
Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University has a subscription 100%health service. Subscribers pay for information that will transform their life and health. In the November 2008 issue, Holford casts aspersions on the the state of knowledge of the research literature on chromium and blood sugar management for the writers and editors of the Manual of Dietetic Practice. He upbraids them for failing to update their text in the light of a systematic review that was published *after* the book was published. Despite Holford’s selective quotation from that review, it is clear that the review does not merit any update to the text as yet. Continue reading
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Ben Goldacre: Upcoming Programme on Incapacity Benefit 10.11.08
Ben Goldacre of Bad Science is continuing his series of contributions to Radio 4: Incapacitated. As the government unveil a tough new benefits system for the sick, Dr Ben Goldacre explores the parlous state of the incapacity benefits system, an … Continue reading
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Patrick Holford Visited All the Major Nutritional Research Centres in the United States: or so he claimed in 1985
Visiting Professor Patrick Holford has his own dedicated chapter in Ben Goldacre‘s Bad Science: Chapter 9; pp 161-80. Both HolfordWatch and Holford Myths have commented that the CV which Holford submitted to the University of Teesside is riddled with a … Continue reading
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Ben Goldacre on BBC 1′s One Show
Dr Ben Goldacre was on BBC 1′s One Show: watch it on BBC iPlayer. Goldacre discusses the media’s responsibility for poor science reporting. There are several good illustrations and an entertaining contribution from Professor Tom Sanders who explains that he thinks of self-declared nutritionists as “spoon-benders” who make it up as they go along. Sanders’ pith and deadpan delivery is a good counterpoint to Goldacre’s high-involvement presentation style. Continue reading
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More Dore media coverage: Bad Science and the Sun
A quick post to note some more of the unfolding coverage of Dore UK’s closures. Ben Goldacre uses his Guardian bad science column to point out that, when analysing the coverage of Dore: it seems the bloggers win on timeliness, … Continue reading
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The Energy Equation and Co-enzyme Q10: Holford the Pioneer
Co-enzyme Q10 (CoQ10) has been getting some attention lately, off the back of a Boots marketing campaign. David Colquhoun has described Boots’ marketing of these pills as “as bad a bit of nutribollocks as I’ve ever seen”, while Ben Goldacre … Continue reading
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Patrick Holford, IgG Food Intolerance Self-Testing and the House of Lords
Professor Patrick Holford is a staunch advocate of the “sound science” behind IgG food intolerance testing. A House of Lords report on allergy services in the UK finds that the test has no proven clinical efficacy. Continue reading
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