We recently mentioned how Dr. John Briffa was questioning the use of ‘stanols’ and ‘sterols’ as a prevention against heart disease. The BHF have joined forces with Flora margarine a Unilever company. John contacted the BHF and got a reply from Professor Peter Weissberg, the medical director of the BHF. The dialogue between John and Peter was most enlightening. Check out the full article on the Briffa link below. A commenter called NM summed up the situation very well I thought. Part of the comment.
“Thank you once again for revealing the corruption at the core of the BHF. Note how the organisation strains every sinew to give its sponsors’ dubious products the benefit of the doubt. It grips tightly on the frayed thread of an irrelevant surrogate marker as the totality of its justification! And note their sponsor, despite their allegedly “small” funding, has its philosophical sinews drawn across and through the whole organisation.
I am sure that Professor Weissberg, for example, believes to his absolute depths that he is a profoundly honourable man, untainted and untaintable. I’m sure he honestly considers Dr Briffa to be a troublesome gadfly, maliciously vomiting on The Professor’s magnificent corpus! And that’s precisely why this corruption is so insidious and hopeless to reform. It’s systemic, deep, unconscious and metastasised across the whole body of the organisation, and every attempt to reveal it evinces a strong defensive immune response.”
Time after time, we see charities and organisations we should be able to trust, contaminated by multinational food conglomerates or big pharma, who wrap their craven tentacles, like a giant vampire squid, around the face of humanity.
Eddie
Link to Dr. Briffa's article here.
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10 comments:
Professor weissberg in his reply to Dr Briffa.."..the main objective of the partnership with Unilever is to utilise their considerable reach to help us highlight the risk of CVD to women."
That's the only argument he has after all the waffling?? Jeez!! Well it would appear the many female posters who commented afterwards don't agree and are ditching the trans fats faster than the speed of sound!
Paul
Once again Dr Briffa has highlighted that not all is as it would appear. Always politely, always direct to the point and always on the right side of our health and wellbeing.
Kate
Recommended read
Jeff
Please do not get me wrong. We do need 'charities' especially the less well known organisations. With the government cuts less money is around for the large and small organisations that rely on donations. If money is offered I should think it's gladly taken and eyes are averted as to where the money has come from. It is not right but what is these days?
Joe
I love Dr John. He's like a Terrier, forever snapping at the heels of the medical mafia. A bit like our Eddie!
Ray
I'm not totally convinced we do, in fact, need the larger charities. Especially if they are just to act as a "front" for the somewhat nefarious activities of others. This appears to be happening more and more often -or we are becoming more aware of it thanks to people like Dr Briffa.
Kath
i'm with Kath -- in the US all the big medical charities are only self-perpetuating money mills for "research" looking for non-existent magic bullets. :-( the "cure" for so many illnesses is usually clear, but flies in the face of conventional wisdom ... and is frequently unpalatable to the carb-addicts among us.
I love John Briffa. Thank heavens there are doctors like him out there with a brain.
I see Malcolm Kendrick also has a new post entitled 'unutterable balls'!
DR.s Briffa and Kendrick, two who keep us well informed.
Charities do do a lot of good. Unfortunately they can become too top heavy and almost forget what they were set up to do i.e. help others. I think smaller charities do keep the care of their patrons in the forefront much better. Of course others may not agree.
Kay
I agree with you Kay. It is almost always the "brand leader" for each condition becomes just another faceless corporation with no aspirations except to keep that position. There must be a certain point at which they decide that they no longer wish to engage with those they were set up to help and that concentrating on research is a more worthy object. There is then little difference between them and any other financial institution. They are selling their name and reputation to the highest bidder. It’s only by engaging with those they were set up to help that they can continue to deserve the name of Charity.
Kath
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