Fw: Leading UK journalist takes on top 'quackbuster'

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This was sent to me by my clinic owner and is relevant to recent discussions on

both forums I think ! Anyway something to cheer up a grey January day.

Happy New Year

Dore MNIMH MCPP

Dear ,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

US citizens and others have had to deal for many years with

Barrett MD, the now discredited, self-appointed quackbuster that has had the

majority of leading protagonists of alternative medicine in his sights at one

time or another.

The UK has its own variant of Barrett. His name is Ben Goldacre

and he has yet to be sidelined. Who better to take him on than award-winning

journalist and author, , author of classics such as his 1993

exposée " Dirty medicine: Science, big business and the assault on natural health

care. "

has released, free of charge, for download from today at

www.slingshotpublications.com, his assault on Ben Goldacre. Download all 280

pages of it today!! Also available from the same website is 's last

book, with foreword by ANH's Dr Verkerk, " The Fate of a Good Man " , which

details the criminalisation of Jim following his sale of vitamins after

being set up by the UK's drug regulator and public broadcaster.

Following is some more detail direct from the publisher about these two

pieces of essential reading for all those concerned about some of the most

salient challenges to natural health. Please get the word out as widely as you

can - forward this email to anyone you know who might be interested. Thank you.

Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism is 's fourth book

charting the development of the corporate science lobby that has grown rapidly

since New Labour came to power in 1997. One of the most recent exponents of the

Lobby is Dr Ben Goldacre who has regurgitated a bad 'Science' column in the

Guardian newspaper since 2003.

Like other quackbusters Goldacre claims to write factually based and

scientifically accurate articles about health, medicine and science either

supporting scientists and doctors or criticising individuals involved in

alternative or nutritional health care. Goldacre's writing, however, actually

reflects the ideology of powerful industrial, technological and political vested

interests.

Goldacre who it is claimed is a Junior doctor working in a London NHS

hospital is actually a clinical researcher working at the centre of New Labour's

Orwellian spin operation that puts a sympathetic gloss on anything shown to

create adverse reactions from MMR to Wi-Fi, while at the same time undermining

cost-effective and long tried alternative therapies such as acupuncture and

homoeopathy. Goldacre is involved with public health researchers well known for

trying to prove that those who claim to be adversely affected by pollutants in

our modern high-technology society, suffer from 'false illness beliefs'.

Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism, investigates Goldacre's role in

industry lobby groups and puts another point of view in defense of some of the

people whom he has attacked, belittled, satirized, castigated, vilified,

maligned and opined against in his junk journalism.

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Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism: Ben Goldacre, quackbusting and

corporate science, is available from the Slingshot Publications web site as a

free download, from mid-day on Wednesday January 2nd.

To be effective as a campaigning document, it is important that this

book is distributed far and wide as quickly as possible. Please forward this

publication information together with the Slingshot Publications web site

address. Another thing that will help with the book's distribution is the

writing of even very short reviews for different web sites, this helps get the

book onto Google listings.

This book is free and can be downloaded from the Slingshot Publications

site: www.slingshotpublications.com. Please distribute it as widely as possible

and if you think that the work is worth it, consider making a small donation.

Also on the Slingshot site, is 's last book, The Fate of a Good

Man. The book tells the story of Jim , the investigation into him, his

prosecution and trial by the Big Pharma regulatory agency, the MHRA. A good read

at £5.00.

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