I’m a doctor myself and i know it is true that many tens of thousands of people are harmed and even killed by medical science every year , a great deal of those by drugs and may are avoidable. It’s also true that the drugs industry itself does some pretty poor science and has some questionable practices and alot of doctors are not entirely scruitinising of their studies.

Despite this i believe we (doctors) do far more good than we do harm. (no i haven’t any hard evidence for this).

It is my opinion that we should be just as hard on ourselves and the scientific community as we are on the alternative practioners and pseudoscientists that are exposed in this blog. I’d like to think Ben would agree with this

Of course the drugs industry has some pretty powerful lawyers too..

What i am trying to say is that we should put our own house in order too and it would give these kinds of people less ammunition to pedal their poison / useless remedies and drive people away from medicine and science in general. The general public i’m sure is very aggreived already by the harm medicine and science does to society (which is constantly in the newspapers) and increasingly so i think. Post modernism is very subversive.

If we demonstrate the way forward, buy being scientifixally rigourous and accountable and perhaps less elitist the we would gain the trust of society at large.
And that i think is unassailable, even to these fools. As the saying goes people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones!

Not likely. We don’t touch those hawthorn and chokecherry plants with their cyanogenic glycosides.

On the Nomato website there is a link to the Arthritis Nightshades Research Foundation website (www.noarthritis.com/).
I stupidly thought it may contain some real information.
The “I tried the Diet and it didn’t work” section is truly funny. It says:
“You are sensitive to these foods, even though you have gotten a little potato starch or paprika in canned soups (don’t forget to read the labels). Maybe you are still eating yogurt for “good health” (some brands contain potato starch), or margarine (palmitate ester vitamin A), or a little low-fat milk on breakfast cereal every morning (vitamins A and D), or eating a lot of fresh fruits every day (may get a batch with too much synthetic pesticide)… Try canned fruit such as pears and peaches for awhile but be aware that many have corn syrup added as a sweetener and it may happen to contain the Bt insecticide gene (see Bt gene on this website).”

Oh – I think I’m feeling a bit sensitive to BT today! Maybe I shouldn’t have eaten that tobacco salad…

Oh

My

God

Run for the hills!

By that logic, does it mean water (H2O) and peroxide (H2O2) are also the same thing? After all there’s only one extra oxygen atom in there…

They have. If we’re worrying about people calling themselves “Dr”, what about this one who aspires to royalty. Check out The Health Queen’s Fountain of Healthy News and “Why is Chirality important to skin care?”.

God forbid the woomeisters ever get a wiff of chirality.

who eat loads of the things and just happen to live healthier and longer lives than most Europeans – particularly the Brits.
For heaven’s sake, who is thick enough to believe all this fictitious shite about tomatoes and potatoes being bad for you. One thing occurs to me, most of these high-profile (celeb)nutrition “experts” come from a country with just about the worst faddy attitudes to food and all the consequent health problems. They are the absolute last people to seek out for advice about healthy eating and healthy living.

No, it f***ing isn’t. You might suspect them to be a little different even from the basic formulae – C10 H14 N2 vs C45 H73 N O15 – and even a chocolate baron should be able to tell that the structures are very different (see Nicotine and Solanine).

I can’t decide if this kind of thing is deliberate misinformation, or if people just write whatever half-informed bilge comes their heads to spin the story in the direction they want.