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!

“Pukawangi@aol.com” hide details 1:05 pm (2 minutes ago)
to bad.science@guardian.co.uk
date Jun 30, 2007 2:05 PM
subject Doctor Gillian Mckeith
mailed-by goldacre.net
To Ben Goldacre

Hmm your spoutings from your speaking anus are unusual. You must really be a sad wimp of the litter and 99 hundreder change hands.
Let have a look at your boring life. Are born out of wedlock? If so and you are the wimp, it is fair to call you a little bastard.
We may also call you little bastard hand exerciser. But thats enough of the showering praise on you. Lets get down to the nitty gritty of your hidden life. You must have been jilted at some time by a female who was a doctor. Yes this it, I have analysed your problem! Do you still live with your Mum? Are you afraid of the opposite sex, whoops! you may even be afraid of word sex, wow this must really be finding your inadequacies. Could it be that name McKeith reminds you of a scottish person probably with a kilt, probably female but could be male, this person probably took your virginity one way or another “every which way when” and it changed your life forever. Now you do not know which way to turn. You dont know if you are Arthur or Martha. Their may be a clue in your name Ben. Look at the possibilities BEND OVER. BEN DOWN. BENT AS A NINE BOB NOTE.Maybe you should look at your own pathetic life and stop bad mouthing other people especially the good Doctor Gillian McKeith who is trying to help others who are not able to help thereselves. Your energises would be better supporting the good Doctor Gillian McKeith.

Mr Peter Wangi

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

Oh yeah, and cadbury’s – green and black’s parent co. – is going to face prosecution over their problems with salmonella…

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…

But wouldn’t it be interesting to do a ‘citation map’ approach to the woo brigade – just so the public can see the links between woo therapists/ woo endorsers/woo companies/ woo journos and woo mags….

one wonders if the public would be so accepting if they could see how meeja woo nutritionists groom their journo contacts in broadcast and print media to push their gruesome book/ website/ supplements/ conferences ad nauseam…

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.