Ben Goldacre gives chapter and verse on Gillian McKeith
I believe in science, in establishing facts through scientific method as far is possible. Gillian McKeith believes whatever comes into her head, it seems.
Mr Goldacre is of like mind:
'Now will somebody please explain to me how this woman can be on television, every week, wearing a white coat, talking authoritatively about "treating patients", sticking irrigation equipment into people's rectums, and coming out with sentences like "each sprouting seed is packed with the nutritional energy needed to create a full grown healthy plant" which are just simply wrong (the plant gets the energy from sunlight, using chlorophyll, like we said earlier). She is a menace to the public understanding of science, and anyone who gives her a platform should be ashamed of themselves.'
Bad Science, 19 August 2004
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I just wish that someone with proper scientific training would take her "You Are What You Eat" book and debunk it, line by line.
I'm not normally keen on the Mail, but the Mail on Sunday just had a brilliant hatchet job on GMcK: debunking the claimed US TV and radio credentials (like the Joan Rivers show, which she claims to have been on, has never heard of her).
Here are the basics:
The Mail, which in the past endorsed Dr Gillian McKeith as "the world's most acclaimed nutritionist", appears to have turned against her. The August 22nd Mail on Sunday carried a double-page invesigation by Fidelma Cook, "Is Channel 4's latest food guru Dr Gillian really a quack and a danger to a health?" Alongside previously-revealed debunkings, the article contained new revelations about the claimed qualifications now removed from her own site. They found she has no diploma "pending from the Australasian College of Health Science" (the college said she'd been in contact but never enrolled; her lawyers say her enrolment was deliberately kept confidential and she begins the course next month). They found no Masters degree in Health Systems Management from the University of Pennsylvania (she did attend, but the course was in International Relations). They reported less than overwhelming evidence of five years hosting a nationally-syndicated US radio show, Healthline across America: they found only local shows, one broadcast to the Philadelphia metro area and the other, a weekly slot, on a small New York station. There's no record of her claimed position as Healthy Living expert on the Joan Rivers Television Show: neither Rivers' publicist nor the show's resident Royals expert remembered her, and the archived guest lists 1989-1993 - which they found at the Museum of TV and Radio, Beverly Hills - have no reference. Pity the article isn't online.
- ray
The article is online:
http://www.fmwf.com/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=595&Type=1
Ms McKeith appears to be credential-free in the area of health and nutrition.
Beware! there's now a UK magazine called YAWYE. May issue avilable 24 March. (?)
Silly Gilly features strongly, of course. Mainly making nasty comments about a charming family's bowel movements.
There's a disclaimer on the contents page about McKeith's qualifications. Borrow granny's reading glasses before you strain your eyes trying to find it.
Before anyone discredits anyone who has a product that they are trying to promote that is wholesome w/o pesticides,and completely free of chemicals etc,they have far more credence to be wearing a white lab coat than our money eyed doctors, that yes, do have their bit of paper declaring they had to pay a fortune in order to their credentials. Allowing them legally to inject people with all kinds of synthetic pharmaceuticals that in the long run, hurt them. These are the legallised drugs, which our scientists create, and which our media promotes. I see adverts of all types of drugs that declare will help you in one way, but guess what, will destroy your liver, or some other organ in another way. Yet the programmed and gullible lemmings who reject anything positive, or outside the "norm", prefer to follow the rest whom are unable to think for themselves, and snicker at those who don't agree with their non-beliefs. Many of our fine physician friends come from such designer Universities with all trimmings of knowledge and philosopher stones, but prefer keep the life-saving tactics to themselves; believe me I know about these blokes; they prefer to keep you sick and coming back for more, because think about, if we had a healthy world, there wouldn't be much of a need for doctors. Churn and burn is their motto and creed. I've met people in the pharmaceutical business too, and it's pretty clear that doctors are bribed with all sort of trips, etc, just to try a new synthetic drug on their waiting room of guinea pigs. I've also noticed that physicians overall have horrendous bed-side manners, because they simply do not care about their patients, only their exhorbant fees that they snatch from their patients. Anyone can learn about the human body and study science, but science only goes so far, in turn, does not make doctors "God". A white lab coat makes a doctor not, including the scientists and pharmacists that aid in pushing their harmful chemicals onto the ignorant public. It doesn't stop at the there, just take a look at the ingredients found on the shelves at the market; more chemicals. One can rationalise this all they want, but you are what you eat, and the body is a temple, whether you believe that one or not, and what you put in is what you get out. Practically everything contains artificial sweeteners and preservatives that are killing the less informed very slowly, because they choose to rationalise everthing instead of coming to grips that their own health is in their own hands. Yes, doctors do help to an extent, but you need to do a bit of research for yourself, before knocking something, or trying something. Face it no one wants to hear the "real truth", because it's so much easier to just bash someone especially when they are doing something good that's benefitting humanity vs hurting it, because it's better to just blame someone else for their lack of responsibility.
Anyway, I've tasted Dr. McKeith's products whilst in London, and must say that they are amazing and make a difference (for me). As long as she's not hurting anyone, what the hey, I'm all for it! So instead of knocking her, why not just flip your tellie to another channel,especially those of you who don't like what she has to offer, because maybe a channel on death and destruction, or perhaps the war in the Middle East is more your speed, there's lots of negative info right there to feed on. There are so many people out there, who just love talking about people and defacing them, yet speak about wanting peace in the world at the same time. Amazing I say, but here's another bit, before we can ask for peace in the world, we need to find it in ourselves first, don't you think?
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