Pay £6.99 to say "no" to cancer
Dr Crippen has made a great discovery.
It is now possible to say “no” to cancer. All you have to do is buy Patrick Holford’s book “Say no to cancer”. It only costs £6.99.
Actually, you do not even need to pay £6.99. You can have the book for free. Well, sort of. You get a free copy of the book if you join “100% Health”
100% Health sounds good to Dr Crippen. Better than 90% health that is for sure.
Best Deal – Save £50!
Yes I would like to join 100% Health today and receive your 100% Health newsletter for 2 years, that’s 12 newsletters, and the 10 special reports shown below, and I want to claim my free book for only £49.99. That’s a saving of £50 off the normal price.
Yummie!
Patrick Holford is clearly a very clever man. For, with his help, not only can you say “No” to cancer you can say “No” to arthritis and “No to heart disease” as well.
Wow!
And Patrick needs your support to continue the good work. He is asking for donations. Your gift, however large, will be gratefully received.
If you are in any doubt as to how clever Patrick is, he lists his qualifications:
Education and QualificationsI understand the BSc from York. But can anyone help me with Dip.ION?
1973- 1976 B.Sc. Experimental Psychology, University of York
1995 Dip.ION Honorary Diploma in Nutritional Therapy
2004 F.BANT Fellow of the Association of Nutritional Therapists
Positions and Employment
1984 – 1998 Director of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition
1995 – 2005 Director of the Mental Health Project
1998 – 2005 Director of 100% Health Ltd
1998 - Director of Holford & Associates Ltd
2000 - Consultant to the Institute for Optimum Nutrition
2003 – Director of the Brain Bio Centre
2005 – CEO of the Food for the Brain Foundation
I think that is a Diploma of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition. But who are they? I went to their website:
ION is based in South West London... map and was founded in 1984 by ……..nutritionist and author Patrick Holford.Ah!
I have another problem with Patrick. A serious problem.
Patrick is a supporter of Dr Andrew Wakefield. And that makes me uneasy. So I started digging around in the nutritional and other "advice" that Patrick has gives on his site and in his books.
Oh dear!
Oh dear me!
Very soon I realised that I could devote a whole website Patrick Holford. Fortunately, someone has got there before me.
Holford Watch - The Truth About Patrick Holford, Media NutritionistI was particularly impressed with Patrick Holford and some Fishy numbers
This blog uses basic science to challenge the nutritionist Patrick Holford. Holford's website describes him as "a pioneer...Britains best-selling author and leading spokesman on nutrition and mental health". Holford's key qualifications include "being frequently quoted almost weekly in...newspapers"; he also claims to be "a vegan who eats eggs and fish". With all these credentials, there's obviously a lot to learn from watching the guy!
And then, as always when talking of autism, a visit to Left Brain/Right Brain, written by the father of an autistic child.
The death of the MMR debacle
Labels: patrick holford, quackery, quacktitioner alert, say "no" to cancer, wakefield
18 Comments:
Spin merchants Can't get away from them Beware of El Gordo
Those lively lads at Gene Expression have drawn my attention to the merits of the Paleolithic Diet. Yum, yum.
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/medizin_gesundheit/bericht-86534.html
Bad Science also has a great line in Patrick Holford debunking.
Re Quackwatch
Please be advised that the man behind Quackwatch,Dr. Stephen Barrett is nothing other than a fraud himself.
http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.html
Beware when you debunk people and take good care to check out that the vested interests of large pharmacutical companies are not leading you down the garden path.(again)
Remember it was you guys who prescribed products like phenfluramine ..........how many patients have you killed? Do you take responsibility for the consequences of your prescription pad?
Ofcourse not !!
If you buy the book and follow the instructions and get cancer, could you sue ?
"Do you take responsibility for the consequences of your prescription pad?" - of course they do you numpty. It's call medical negligence and can result in huge damages.
anonymous 8.26, you are an Alt Health nutter.
Dr Barrett's conduct is, no question, a serious professional breach for a doctor, though somewhat moot as he does not practise as a physician any more. But it does not mean he is wrong about the myriad varieties of quack nonsense he has debunked over the years.
The responses of the people he sued on the link you give follow the usual Alt-quack line of "We have now been vindicated which means EVERYTHING we say must be true - they tried to suppress us but THE TRUTH WILL OUT".
Well, no. One specific factual matter was decided - that Barrett had not been honest about exactly what higher medical licencing he had. The rest was not part of the case.
Let's listen to the Alt Nonsense purveyor's lawyer talking it up and explaining what he is really about.
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Negrete continued, “It is another great day for health freedom and alternative healthcare around the world.
Barrett is a shill for the medical and pharmaceutical cartels and his bully tactics and unjustified discrediting of leading innovators, scientists and health practitioners should not be tolerated.”
Negrete said, “You can be assured that our legal team will be wherever health freedom advocates and practitioners are being persecuted. The tide is now turning and people are no long accepting that synthetic drugs are the only form of treatment are the only way to address health concerns.
"Every day, consumers are becoming more educated about the benefits of holistic and alternative methods. This is something that the medical establishment obviously fears and wants to crush with false propaganda.”
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Note the inclusion of what we in the trade call the "Pharma Shill Gambit", a trademark piece of Natural Health Placebo Salesman-
speak.
Watever exaggerations he may have indulged in, Stephen Barrett and his Quackwatch site have done a sterling job exposing the lies and evasions of a multi-billion dollar Alt Health industry, which has used just about every evasion and fraud tactic in the book.
[I say "industry" because, even if the providers of Alt Health are less monolithic than the Pharma giants, they still constitute an army of sellers feeding off a (unregulated) market worth billions of pounds/dollars]
The pharmaceutical industry are hardly clean, and their influence on healthcare is sometimes malign, but at least there are some attempts at meaningful regulation. In contrast, in Alt Health, under the guise of "consumer freedom of choice" you can basically tell people any lie you please to help relieve them of their money.
Beware when you debunk people and take good care to check out that the vested interests of large pharmacutical companies are not leading you down the garden path.(again)
Remember it was you guys who prescribed products like phenfluramine ..........how many patients have you killed? Do you take responsibility for the consequences of your prescription pad?
Ofcourse not !!
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How could I possible debunk someone who can, for a mere £6.99, tell you how to avoid cancer.
As regards phenfluramine, I have never prescribed it. Don't prescribe appetite suppressants; they can be dangerous.
But on the more general point, if I prescribe inappropriate and cause harm, I expect to be sued, and am fully and properly insured. It has not happened yet, but who knows? And I only prescribe drugs that have passed saftely regulattions, and not all of them. I never prescribed Opren for example.
What action to do you take against someone with no professional medical qualifications if he recommends treatment that is harmful?
How much do you know about chelation, for example?
JOhn
Dr. Crippen,
Patrick Holford knows that "chelation therapy is a valuable option...essentially a detox process and is naturopathic in concept".
Chelation might kill people occasionally but it is essentially a detox...
"Symptoms of mental retardation and autism have been reversed for the first time in laboratory mice." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6245742.stm
K
Mice with symptoms of Fragile X - a genetic disease.
"This is very exciting because it suggests that PAK inhibitors could be used for therapeutic purposes to reverse already established mental impairments in fragile X children."
The mice weren't cured with a restricted diet, chelation, mega-doses of supplements or the ministrations of 'nutritional therapists'. How odd.
What dr aust said.
I say "no" to cancer quite often but does it listen to me? does it hell. I was obviously just born too early (further confirmation being that I was at university with the new home secretary, put a whole new spin on policemen getting younger).
Probably the worst thing about Holford is the way he is presented in the media (press and TV) as some kind of expert.
His representation amongst bloggers is far more accurate. See this post by Breath Spa for Kids for a list of recent blogs on Holford and Autism. Of course Holford has no expertise in autism so he needed to line up a heavyweight researcher to give him some credibility. So naturally he picked Andrew Wakefield.
Potentilla, do you remember to shout it out of a window - in a manner akin to Howard Beale/Peter Finch in Network. "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
Possibly you need to chant it.
Mike - yes, you know you're in trouble when you are turning to Andrew Wakefield as your authority on the matter. Wait, you should know...
Holford has no expertise in autism so he needed to line up a heavyweight researcher to give him some credibility. So naturally he picked Andrew Wakefield.
Nicely put. Holford references the heavyweights at the Autism Research Institute, too. Did someone mention credibility...
Patrick has gaily skipped through the medical dictionary over the years to exploit the vulnerable unwell with his claims to '100% health', chastising those who inevitably fail to 'cure' their conditions and reach this nirvana for not excluding enough foods/ taking enough 'healthproductsforlife vitamins/ attending enough ION or Broccoli-for-Brain seminars/ weekend guru courses/ completing sufficient cod-psychology tests - in summary, a very fishy tale.
Perhaps his attempts to make megabucks from mental health issues will at last prove his nemesis. Lets hope so.
How about a 'Say No to Holford' book - there's enough subject matter out there for an encyclopedia of nonsense.
How about it?
And just a thought? Just where was he for the 7 year stretch between being a psychologist and becoming a nutritionist? I wonder.
"And just a thought? Just where was he for the 7 year stretch between being a psychologist and becoming a nutritionist? I wonder."
He's no psychologist... a BSc with Honours does not a psychologist make: it's what you do after that.
He's clever enough to dupe 'ornery folks' but - as has been pointed out - his diploma from his own institute... that's a way dubious, isn't it?! He's not even a nutritionist (as far as I'm aware, a clinical nutritionist is a BSc Dietician who has taken further a MSc degree in clinical nutrition).
My understanding is that a 2ii in an "accredited" B.Sc. in Psych in the UK gets you the basic graduate membership of the British Psychological Society, david, but I guess you would know better than me.
As you say, becoming a "chartered" psychologist of some kind requires rather more than that. So strictly speaking, agree that Patrick H is not a psychologist, any more than a science B.Sc. makes someone "a scientist".
Wonder if Patrick ever worked as some kind of psychologist post-graduation? His CV suggests not.
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