Omega 3 and the Durham Trial

Ben Goldacre really doesn’t like the results he can see from that Durham trial into Omega 3 being fed to children. In fact, he’s certain that it is entirely nonsense, a fake, perhaps even a simple fraud.

My interpretation of all this running about is very simple:
Madeleine Portwood is falling over herself to make time for journalists
who know nothing about science, with her "research", and her "limbic
system", and her graphs; but as soon as someone who knows about T-tests
and the Consort guidelines for presenting clinical trial research data
comes along, she shuts up shop.

Journalists of Britain: if a
woman from Durham fitting this description approaches you with a
"science" story involving children, you know where to come first.

2 responses

  1. Fleetwood Sports College claims Omega 3 oils increased the grades of their students to their highest ever level. Don’t children at virtually every school record GCSE results every year even though we are told they are feeding themselves on ever more junk food? The Fleetwood school doesn’t mention if some of its students were used as a control group, so the scientific value of the ‘research’ is dubious.

  2. nichols thomasmoore Avatar
    nichols thomasmoore

    i have adhd for wich i take methylpheidate.and i do not like the side-er-fe-cts. i am 36 years old and it was not di-ag-no-sed well in to my 30. i have cr-o-n-ic dyelxer which i find the most di-a-bl-ing. i am ve-re intrested in know more. how dose it work and has the trail ben
    tar-get-ed only at scholl chidren or has this been trile on adult with adhd, or other learing dis-a-bi-la-t es.
    i would willing take part in a cl-in-ical tril for aduls with adhd and dyelexer. i would apr-she-at to hear from you.
    your nicholas thomasmoore

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