BEN GOLDACRE - Part 2

Regretfully, due to work commitments, I was not able to listen to the programme. But on his website he is slagging off Sue McGinty from BANT who courageously stood up to him and defended nutritional therapy.

I wish to say thank you Sue on behalf of all nutritional therapists and please do not allow individuals like Dr Goldacre to upset you - he is determined to discredit all complementary therapies. Surely there are bad apples everywhere, but why does he need to concentrate on the negative issues only?

Had he been balanced in his views, most of us would thank him for exposing the ''bad science'.

This is from his website http://www.badscience.net/

8pm BBC Radio 4 - The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists - Part II

March 31st, 2008 by Ben Goldacre in fish oil, patrick holford, onanism, gillian mckeith, nutritionists, bad science | 20 Comments »

Busy bee today, sorry for the late link, the second part of the BBC Radio 4 two-part series “The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists” is going out at 8pm this evening, presented by yours truly, and produced by the excellently sharp Rami Tzabar from the BBC Radio Science Unit. I think it’s rather good, and makes a single clear point: lifestyle is important, and we all want to improve our health, but the evidence on diet and health is not sufficient to justify the very specific and confident advice which we crave, and which some will sell to us.

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