Something fishy going on…

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.

4 comments November 13th, 2006