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Expert comments on my first PhD paper

* The first PhD paper was a meta-analysis of the randomised controlled trials that examined the evidence for two dietary fat ...
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Expert comments on UPFs vs meat

* The criticisms of the UPF were reasonable, and similar to ones I would have made (with one exception). However, I suspected that similar studies, which attributed many deaths and cardiovascular ...
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My Books

One of my books, “The Obesity Epidemic: What caused it? How can we stop it?” is available in full on this site. See here ...
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The CTT statin adverse effects paper

* A paper was published on 5th February 2026 which generated headlines such as "Statins don’t cause most side effects blamed on them." * The Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU) is an academic research ...
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Statins & Dementia – the evidence

* Last week's note reviewed a Korean population study, which led to headlines such as "Taking statins could slash dementia risk." The claims were not robust. * This week's note reports findings from a ...
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How statin drugs really lower cholesterol & kill you one cell at a time

(Jump to the Executive Summary at the end if you don’t want the full monty). This is a review of a book written by James & Hannah Yoseph entitled How statin drugs really lower cholesterol: and kill ...
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COVID-19 – do masks help?

Executive summary * The official positions from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC), the US Surgeon General and the UK Deputy Chief Medical officer are ...
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What should we eat?

A logical follow-up to last week’s note critiquing the National Food Strategy would be to set out a summary of my dietary advice. Dietary advice should achieve two goals. First, it should enable us to ...
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JCVI conflicts of interest

* On February 16th, 2022, the UK Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) issued a statement to update its advice for 5-11 year olds in relation to COVID-19 jabs. * The JCVI Code of ...
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Eatwell Guide – conflicts of interest

The new ‘eatwell’ guide, no longer a plate, was issued on March 16 th 2016. This is my view of that guide. This post is about the group behind the guide. The investigation in this post led to this ...
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Did the CTT statin papers achieve their aims?

This is the final of three articles looking at the statin trials that have been conducted and the pooling together of those trials with the technique called meta-analysis. The Clinical Trial Service ...