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A new judgment today from the Advertising Standards Authority . A direct mailing for books by Patrick Holford, a nutritionist, contained a booklet entitled “100%health”. Headline text stated “You don’t swallow junk food. Why swall ...
I have received today (11 September 2007) a rather threatening letter from Patrick Holford. He says “I am writing to you directly to complain about both your article in The Guardian of 15 August, in which you falsely claim that my advocacy that Vit ...
DC’s original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page. All the older stuff is here. DC’s goodscience blog is now merged into Improbable Science,so it no longer exists. Badscience.net Ben Goldacre’s site, with text of his excellent Guardian column too.If ...
How irrational thinking in government and universities has led to the rise of new-age nonsense in the name of science. This article appeared on 15th August 2007, on the Guardian Science web site. The Guardian made very few cuts to the original version, b ...
Homeopathy doesn’t poison your body, it poisons your mind Often that is true. Not always though. Homeopathy is worse than just a cultural poison if you die of malaria as a result of advice from a homeopath. The Newsnight TV programme exposed the fact ...
The Westminster Diet and Health Forum “aims to provide the premier environment where parliamentarians, senior policy advisors, regulators and other decision makers can discuss critical issues, and exchange ideas and information with leaders from indu ...
Two interesting papers. One shows popular anti-oxidant ‘supplements’, beta carotene, and vitamins A and D, far from making you live longer, have the opposite effect. Another shows that garlic does not lower cholesterol. And some publicity for ...