Comments on: Holy Catfish

By: Ginters

Ginters — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:06:55 +0000

I don’t we should under estimate the contributions of old Gill.
OK she may not be a doctor and the evidence suggests she doesn’t have an O’level in biology either but in her defense anyone who can look at fat person, display their weekly diet on a single table then have to examine their poo to confirm they are fat whilst still being the shortest person in the world I think needs the nations help.
Add to this she has convinced Channel 4 that she can spin out the idea that if people eat less calories than they need to sustain their weight then they loss weight not just over a one off half hour show but over more than one series can’t be all bad.

In fact screw you lot. Me and Gill are going to get together and create a show where depressed badly dressed women are mocked in their pants until they physically and mentally break down but then rescued from certain solitued to be told that wearing the bark of the Omamaga tree* as low cut jeans and the leaves of the TipTipShoo plant* as a poncho will make them happy: you are what you wear.

*both these plants have been completely made up and ratified by the Clayton College of Online Morons

And Lacey! Don’t knock the publishing record of Closer magazine! Its article on ‘how my nana die by murmering MRSA’ was peer reviewed by the ladies in my office and they say it’s science fact cos one of their neighbours said it happened to them so it must be true.

By: Marko

Marko — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:47:50 +0000

I notice both the Guardian and Channel 4 TV listings have dropped the “Dr.” from her name. One small step …

By: edhollingum

edhollingum — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:12:17 +0000

She could always declare herself a democratic republic.

By: ToeKnee

ToeKnee — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:01:50 +0000

I’ve just got off the bog where (somewhat ironically) I read an ‘article’ in Closer magazine – my wife buys it, honest – in which Gillian McKeith claims she was bullied into dropping the “Dr”. She claims she is permitted to use it because she has a PhD, but that she has been made to drop it because it might confuse people into thinking she was a clinician. This is a clever piece of publicity, by Max Clifford I would guess. She is speaking directly to her target audience in Closer mag – trust me it has a very low citation index – and attempting to confuse the issue around the status the title “Dr” in the minds of laymen. My guess would be that the average Closer reader will go away thinking it’s just some technical detail but that McKeith is still an educated authority on nutrition and pooh and stuff.

Dr. Tony Lacey

(Just in case you are confused I’m not a medical doctor but I do have a PhD in Computer Vision from The University of Sheffield which is an accredited institution in the UK.)

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:44:41 +0000

Well, it looks like someoneâ€™s site-sitting gillianmckeith.com

Sneaky blighter too. One of those with domain parked at www.adoptadomain.net, whose whois server is never functional.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:21:58 +0000

Erm, am I the only person to think Ben looks like Gary Glitter in those pics?

By: outeast

outeast — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:52:06 +0000

Well, it looks like someone’s site-sitting gillianmckeith.com (without the ‘dr’). But thatawfulpoolady.com is still available…

By: johnspier

johnspier — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:19:27 +0000

Just had a quick look www.drgillianmckeith.com/

She still has her ‘title’ of Dr all over it. I wonder what her excuses are, and how long it will take her to remove all the Dr references?

By: roGER

roGER — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:38:26 +0000

It really ought to be some kind of turbo enema machine rather than a medical laser, but then… maybe Lady Poo would enjoy that.

By: roodle

roodle — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:19:22 +0000

Oh you and your crazy image codes.

[img]http://home.graffiti.net/flamingflamingo/teeeeth.jpg[/img]

By: roodle

roodle — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:08:57 +0000

By: Andrew Clegg

Andrew Clegg — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:24:50 +0000

Hmm, try this instead:

By: Andrew Clegg

Andrew Clegg — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:22:29 +0000

By: Seany

Seany — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:00:47 +0000

Russell Grant or a northern club comic: “I’m not saying my mother-in-law’s fat. She’s not actually, she eats a sensible balanced diet as recommended by a qualified and regulated dietitian”.

By: BSM

BSM — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:58:12 +0000

“Separated at birth? I think we should be told. Now thereâ€™s a twin study!”

But, I think I know which twin ate all the pies.

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:11:58 +0000

By: apothecary

apothecary — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:11:47 +0000

re 8 – You’re right!

Is nobody else more than a little concerned that the â€™shopped Goldacrefinger bears a striking resemblance to â€˜I lie for a livingâ€™ astrological fraud that is Russell Grant??

Separated at birth? I think we should be told. Now there’s a twin study!

By: JLF

JLF — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:25:13 +0000

Now she has lost her “Dr” will we soon be seeing her team up with other hick nutritionist Patrick Holford, to create the Patrick Holford Diploma (aka the PhD)?

And what are these silly references to trials? According to Dr Briffa there is no need, he says (in his blog), “I have never claimed that my work is evidence-based. But the point is, neither is dietetics. Neither is medicine for that matter. Letâ€™s all be clear and honest about this and not blind the public with our professional-sounding rhetoric.” (i’m sure his medic tutors are pleased!)

Also (from his website) it is the BDA, not the sweet innocent unregistered, unregulated nutritionist people should be aware of!!!

By: Despard

Despard — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:50:32 +0000

Aww, they spelt your name wrong in the newsletter though:

“We asked Ben Goodacre, author of the Guardian’s esteemed Bad Science column, to judge the entries.”

By: pseudomonas

pseudomonas — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:20:34 +0000