Bad Science: Dr Ben Goldacre Vs Gillian McKeith

[effzee]

If we 'are what we eat' then Gillian McKeith must eat a lot of 80-year old women because that's what she looks like. What a rotten ambassador for healthful living.

[ForYeensSake]

Loved it. Already bought and read the book so won't buy it again ;). Anyway for those who're on the fence, it's worth the buy. In fact you really should buy it. Even if you're not into science.

[peg2003]

"miracle" at 2:15

[ElMufro]

Lol

[Kenjitsuka]

Oh my Gawd... Someone who claims to be smart acually promotes this garbage in BOOKS? Argh, how far the world has fallen... :(

[madoogliani]

If it weren't for the bad language voiceover at the end, I'd show this to my classes.

[salerio61]

@madoogliani That voice-over was Ben Goldacre doing his bit at Nerdstock Christmas 2009

watch?v=O1Q3jZw4FGs

[kurtilein3]

@madoogliani

dont care about the bad language, just show it to them. there are no rational reasons to avoid bad language. Many highly educated and intelligent people dont avoid bad language, and much of the best comedy in part relies on it, i dont know why its even called bad language. Also, a study has proven that if you get hurt, cursing temporarily decreases the pain level, which is especially useful if the pain is also of a short duration.

[TheSkepticalIdealist]

Thing is spinach is really good for you and is a great food, but for some reason people like McKeith don't like telling us why its actially healthy they have to give stupid woo woo reasons;

[BlizBob]

I wonder what would happen it that oxygen thing in the bowels worked.

Think about it.

Methane and pure oxygen in your guts.

I would be too fucking scared to fart....

[1966berta]

@BlizBob not everyone is able to make methane

[GIRlovesWaffles]

Good thing eating leafy greens doesn't produce oxygen in your intestines. The world doesn't need oxygenated flatulence!

[amandarandom89]

The only way I can get from "Dark leaves" to "oxygenate your blood" is by the iron contained in the plants, and how you need that for Haemoglobin. Not that eating more eating spinach will make you magically increase your haemoglobin levels of course.

[timberwolf0122]

You mean I've not been oxygenating my anus all this time! Fuck! Oh well back to using a lubricated air hose..... the people at Gas'N'Go are not going to be happy

[HomoCyborgZombie]

And suddenly my ass is a fish.

Little help here?

[Brascofarian]

My sister is dietician and defended McKeith when I pointed out she was a total fraud. :/ I can't help thinking their is a certain irony about a dietician who can't see the bigger picture...

[Widgetas]

Awesomes :)

Did you see Uncaged Monkeys?

[Ainulindale21]

@Widgetas

Found out about it in Cardiff 2 hours before it was due to start. £100 later (mates) and a frenzied run into town and yes, I saw it :]

Tweeted a question too, which got read out to much lols. "Of all the amazing images in the universe, why did Professor Cox use his own face for his book covers?"

I'm very proud.

[Widgetas]

@Ainulindale21 Christ - expensive!

Ah so my clear, clever, insightful and reasoned questions was ignored and *yours* was read out because it fitted with Ince's cheeky mentality!? I'd be *really* pissed off if I'd have actually asked a question, but my point stands!

[mooimafish17]

@Widgetas Last London show. And what a show! 

[WeepingPrince]

@Widgetas yep :) it was brilliant

[FHomeBrew]

When you face the sun directly with your eyes closed you'll see the light that still passes through your thin eyelid. Thus I have wondered to what depths your body permits light to penetrate. The skin does permit some light to pass through and my chemistry teacher said skin uses sunlight (and other things) to produce vitamin D or something.

[quinndiesel1977]

skull fucked with my datacock.... excellent.

[WildwoodClaire1]

A delcious breakfast of well-aimed sarcasm. Now I can start my day refreshed and ready to face any challenge. :)

[mjh012363]

The only way food can give you more oxygenated blood is if it gave you more energy so you can exercise more and thereby breath more oxygen in!

[Ainulindale21]

@Cacterpus

curse you GCSE biology!

Annotations added :]

[Rarae192]

@Cacterpus Yeahh, I immediately thought the same thing, but I decided to just pretend there was enough CO2 to balance it, so I could watch the rest of the video before commenting.

[Rarae192]

@Rarae192 ^Err, not to mention H2O...

[hedleypanama]

@ainulindale21 I can not believe laymen eat that nasty BS!

[GIRlovesWaffles]

Bulbasaur! Use Logic! XD

[ArcasDevlin]

I don't suggest eating air. It can give you gas and/or hiccups.

[Truthiness231]

Eating air would be slightly more "effective".

[SkepticalTraveler]

@Truthiness231 "Eating air would be slightly more "effective"."

You've discovered the secret of the Breatharians.

[jebus6kryst]

Wow. That sounds like an amazing book.

[OukaKisa]

YAY BULBASAUR! (though I prefer Gardevoir)

[Cyrathil]

@OukaKisa SPLITTER!

[sincerity77]

Green veg like contain IRON! Which is in fact nutritious! So she could give an actual HONEST reason for eating them. AARGH!

[bakedbean37]

@sincerity77 Yep! And it's that iron which helps produce your haemoglobin which is your bloods oxygen transport system.

So it's more a case of green veg in the diet aids the uptake of oxygen.

[CyborgAtheist]

Never did like the bitch. She once got a fat woman to stand in a bath of greasy food to prove some kind of point. And she seems to have an unhealthy obsession with poo.

[TheStigma]

If you really rally insist on trying to digest your oxygen rather than - you know - breathing like the rest of us then might I simply suggest gulping a lot of air? It is roughly 21% pure oxygen after all, so if the goal is to ingest oxygen then you really really can't beat that - and its free too boot. Mind you there might be a lot of burping and farting later on, but its well worth the benefits. Well - if there were any benefits that is.

Unless your lungs collapse I don't recommend it ;)

[CMO999]

You're right!

[aldunamesaretaken]

I loved bad science, some people i know who've read it say they think Ben comes across arrogant but to me i know hes just defending our field of science and reason :D

[Tonio31]

Not the "oxygenate your blood" woman again. What a twat she is.

[Anonamouse7]

I love this book :D It's awesome.

'I'm just going to look at your poop.' 'Let's just look at your poop.' ' Your poop looks like poop' 'Poopity poopity poop' She's an odd lady.

[infinit888]

Another problem.

It's not like plants only need Chlorophyll for photosynthesis. Without the surrounding molecular machinery Chlorophyll does not produce Oxygen at all.

[Ainulindale21]

@infinit888

that's what Bulbasaur is for

[infinit888]

@Ainulindale21 Are you suggesting we should eat Pokemon?!

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥ .

[mercatormac]

"Bad Science" is a great book, I highly recommend it

[sausage4mash]

I'm glad that women has been called out ,about time ! saves me shouting at the TV

[vermanshane]

@sausage4mash lol I shout at the TV anytime Fox is on

[piprod01]

Gillian McKeith: born 1959

Nigella Lawson: born 1960

Yeah, if "you are what you eat"; I'm sticking with the Nigella diet! :)

[RyuDarragh]

Glah?!? Dark leafy greens are valuable as nutrients amd chlorophyll has magnesium, sure enough, but it has nothing to do with "oxygenating" our blood :p

[Richy15251]

that was awesome :) as long as these uneducated *ahem* fucks *ahem* keep making money off of gullible people who also haven't received the slightest bit of instruction in science, there will always be a place for these videos.

[viicISrotcib]

good job

[TemporalOnline]

halp...

[jimthepleb]

goldacre is as cool as fuck.....mckeith is a true whackjob...my favourite quote is 'Your poo smells terrible' im guessing hers smells of parma violets

she's a big fan of the whackjob who sold the idea of vegetables curing aids to Thabo Mbeki ..president of South Africa

have you read her doctoral thesis?

now i sit and wait for the writ hehe

[C0nstellati0ns]

:D

[dgeypscun]

Dr. Mckeith has been on my quack list since they started showing her weight loss shows here on BBC america and I recognized her dubious quackery claims. Great vids!

[excessawesome]

loved it

[miniraptorX]

New Vid? YAY!

[bigboy45454545]

Oxygen from plants infused into our blood? That's what lungs are for Mrs Silly Person.

[McPrfctday]

Bark and chillies. LOLOLOLOL

[Corneilius5188]

My brother bought me this book for my birthday. I absolutely loved it.

[tattooskin72]

It's a great book :)

[Artifactorfiction]

Great Book

[dreadpiratedan]

loved it :)

[pilgrimpater]

That was Oh Too (groan) good.

[GofreMcNoodle]

Haha excellent, more of these please. In fact just more videos, they're all amazing XD

[SlideRulePirate]

Brutal...more please!