Tag Archives: Daily Mail
Joanna Blythman: Please Read the Data Appendices About Organic Food Before Conjuring ‘Cancerous Conspiracies’: Part 1
Joanna Blythman and the Soil Association accuse the Food Standards Agency of ignoring the statistics in its own review for differences in nutrient levels between organic and conventionally produced food. We suggest, respectfully, that Blythman and the Soil Association are wrong and refer them to the original data. Continue reading
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Jerome Burne and Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy: Part 2
Jerome Burne relies upon a review of the efficacy and safety of bio-identical hormones by Dr Kent Holtorf. HolfordWatch has some concerns about the quality and coverage of this review. Continue reading
The Mail believes that Holford is an “holistic doctor”: Updated Twice
The Daily Mail refers to Patrick Holford as a “holistic doctor” – when are these journalists going to learn to use google or do they really not care? Continue reading
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Daily Mail, Jerome Burne Want to Scare or Mis-inform Readers About the Chickenpox Vaccine
Jerome Burne, co-author of Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs, with anti-vaccinationist Patrick Holford, writes another anti-vax piece in the Daily Mail – which can’t make up its mind whether it wants to inform or terrify its readers. There are serious discussions to be had about whether or not the UK introduces chickenpox vaccination but this isn’t the way to do it. If Daily Mail had wanted to provide an informed and balance article, then they would have asked a credible expert to write it. Continue reading
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Patrick Holford on Andrew Wakefield: He Needs to Issue an Update
Several of Patrick Holford’s entrepreneurial products for autism have their theoretical justification in Andrew Wakefield’s work. With the recent explicit findings from the Autism Omnibus, it is clear that Wakefield’s research can not be relied upon (referred to in terms of “fraud” and “manipulation). It is past time for Holford to update his readers and subscribers who depend upon him for up-to-date research and advice. Continue reading
Filed under Andrew Wakefield, patrick holford, vaccination, vaccines
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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Daily Mail and Its Frame of a Recent Homocysteine and Depression Study
Daily Mail seems to have contracted the Patrick Holford mode of hyperbole as the only way to discuss homocysteine. Here, it over-eggs the pudding concerning homocysteine and depression in elderly people and seems confused about the nature of the study. Continue reading
Filed under depression, patrick holford, supplements, vitamins
Do Health Journalists Have Any Responsibility to Be Sensible: Looking at the Daily Mail
The Daily Mail carries news of an astonishing tea that helps to whittle down waistlines and reduce blood pressure. It is six paragraphs before you discover that the research in question is about rats rather than people and is about to be presented in a conference, it has not as yet been subjected to scrutiny in a peer-reviewed journal. More worryingly, without any context, the journalist makes a throw-away comment about anti-inflammatory and anti-obeseogenic findings for ibuprofen without indicating that people should not self-experiment and that there are many contraindications. Continue reading
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Daily Mail Continues Its Plan to Bewilder the Nation and Gaslight Us into Believing That We Need Fish Oil Supplements
The Daily Mail has published two articles about fish oil supplements in two weeks. Unfortunately, they contradict each other concerning value for money. This is very unhelpful as the Daily Mail fails to provide an evidence base for some of the advice that it dispenses concerning recommended doses of fish oil supplements and I’d like to think that they can redeem themselves in some way by commenting on value for money or actual efficacy. Continue reading
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Carole Caplin Is Persuading Us of The Merits of Biocare’s Supplements?
In April, Carole Caplin criticised a Cochrane Review and accused the reviewers of a conflict of interest. Just how desperate is Biocare that they are trying to pass off Carole Caplin as a suitable expert for opining on matters of nutrition for the development of healthy children? Biocare claims to have suitably credentialled and qualified people, yet they use Patrick Holford and Carole Caplin to promote the doctrine of vital supplementation. Continue reading
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