Tag Archives: Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs
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
NYT Exposes Ben Goldacre and Gimpy as Critical of Homeopathy Because They Might Be In the Pay of Big Pharma: Homeopathy Resource Speaks Out
Official Homeopathy Resource breaks some shocking news: New York Times: Beware of Anti-Homeopathy Journalists and Bloggers- They May Be Sponsored By Drug Companies. They name names – Dr Ben Goldacre and Gimpy. Except, it wasn’t really the NYT, except in the imagination of Official Homeopathy Resource, and the story wasn’t about anti-homeopathy journalists or bloggers. And the NYT didn’t namecheck either Goldacre or Gimpy. Homeopathy, bringing the accurate reports to your screen. Continue reading
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Who Wrote About Food for the Brain in The Economist: Conflict of Interest?
It is with great sorrow and yet some amusement that we report the identity of the writer responsible for the recent, lamentable, credulous write-up about the Food for the Brain conference in The Economist. The article lauded nutritional approaches to the treatment of addiction. When you learn the identity of the author, you may think that there is a conflict of interest, we couldn’t possibly comment. Continue reading
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Patrick Holford and Scientific Accuracy and Attention to Detail: He Needs It
Visiting Professor Patrick Holford of Teesside University has a subscription 100%health service. Subscribers pay for information that will transform their life and health. As ever, Holford neglects to provide references and make similar faux pas such as failing to notice that a paper on which he relies has been retracted. Just what does the University of Teesside hope to gain from their continuing association with Holford? Continue reading
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Patrick Holford Responds to Radio 4 Programme and Misses the Point: Part 2b
We are going to look at something interesting about the relationship between Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs (FIBMTD) and the Food for the Brain Child Survey 2007. The former was written by Holford & Burne, and the latter by … Continue reading
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Patrick Holford and His Alternative to Anti-Depressants
Professor Patrick Holford frequently accuses healthcare workers, scientists and researchers of concealing research or failing to report it accurately. Holford seems to have failed to noticed some relevant nuances about the Kirsch et al meta-analysis of anti-depressants and is promoting his unproven nutritional advice as an appropriate alternative with ‘conclusive evidence’ for some elements. Holford overstates the evidence for tryptophan and 5-HTP. Continue reading
Patrick Holford and the Goldacre Law of BS Dynamics
Patrick Holford adopts a certain triumphalist tone when praising the academic and scientific gravitas of Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs: Holford Watch begs leave to express polite disbelief about this claim. Continue reading
Patrick Holford and His Tap-Dancing on the Late Late Show
Patrick Holford the international bowel-whisperer and supplement entrepreneur is familiar to us. Prepare to be dazzled by Patrick Holford the tap-dancer as he delivers a very partial account both of the training of nutritionists and the status of his own nutritional qualifications in a bravura performance on RTE’s The Late Late Show. Continue reading
Statins and Why Patrick Holford Is Breaking My Heart: Part 2
Patrick Holford regularly accuses scientists, doctors and the pharmaceutical industry of withholding or distorting research findings. In a promotional video for Food is Better Medicine than Drugs Holford casts himself and co-author Jerome Burne as Woodward and Bernstein figures battling … Continue reading
Statins and Why Patrick Holford Is Breaking My Heart: Part 1
I don’t expect much of Patrick Holford. I thought that he was good for a little light relief, the occasional surge in blood pressure, a claim here, a statement there, that provokes a roll of the eyes and a shrug … Continue reading
