Something fishy going on…
November 13th, 2006
For the last couple of weeks, Ben Goldacre over at Bad Science central has been hounding Durham County Council over their alleged fish oil trials. I say alleged, because although they are the first to claim feeding nutritional supplements to unsuspecting kids is winning the war on low grades, neither Durham County Council nor Equazen (who donated said pills and received a shitload of free advertising in the process) are willing to cough up any details of the “trials”. This includes numbers, methods, protocols, results, – well, everything.
The heartwarming part of this tale is where Ben makes a Freedom of Information request, has it denied, only to be joined by an overwhelming number of armchair journalists, all firing FoI requests to DCC, demanding to know the dirty details of these so-called trials. It’s the internet equivalent of the slow handclap scene in every movie ever. And what’s best is, yoiu you can join in too. it’s all going on here.
Do it, for the kids.
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4 Comments
1. Bert the Bear | November 15th, 2006 at 11:48 am
Spelling mistake Frank, sort it out. Whatever happened to the Whale of Dilligence? Did he desert you?
2. milly | August 1st, 2007 at 1:52 pm
i like cod
3. kendall | August 22nd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
This makes a very delcious sandwich at country kitchen.
4. Arnel | September 9th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I went to our Provincial Veterenary Office to ask about the cure for my dog’s mange. I was given a prescription. It is Cod Liver Oil.
Cool!
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