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Entries Tagged as 'Matthias Rath'

College of Natural Nutrition: bizarre teaching revealed

November 14th, 2008 · 22 Comments

A really good bit of investigative journalism by BBC Inside Out South West.was shown on Wednesday 12th November 2008.  Unfortunately it was shown only in the South West.  If you are in the UK you can see it on BBC iPlayer.  There is a clip on Youtube.  It features some very sensible comments from a [...]

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Tags: Barbara Nash · Barbara Wren · CAM · College of Natural Nutrition · Dawn Page · Matthias Rath · nutribollocks · nutrition · nutritional therapy

Another worthless validation: the University of Wales and nutritional therapy

October 14th, 2008 · 30 Comments

Jump to follow-up It seems that validation committees often don’t look beyond the official documents. As a result, the validations may not be worth the paper they are written on. Try this one. One of the best bits of news recently was the downfall of Matthias Rath.  He’s the man who peddled vitamin pills for AIDS [...]

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Tags: Academia · Anti-science · BBC · Bad journalism · CAM · Freedom of Information Act · Marc Clement · Matthias Rath · Northern College of Acupuncture · Politicians · UUK · Universities · acupuncture · antiscience · badscience · evidence · homeopathy · managerialism · nutribollocks · nutrition · nutritional therapy · supplements · validation · vice-chancellors