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I seem to remember even the Guardian were confused about that when they published it.bob sterman wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 8:35 pm Yes - Hari is full of sh*t.
But in the case of Latif's article about taking a medication which reduces her desire for food - if you skim read it you could easily come away with the mistaken impression that the medication is semaglutide.
Yes, England’s new weight-loss drug kills your appetite – but as I know, that comes at a cost
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... e-diabetes
They really were scrabbling around for a negative narrative around this stuff. "Let's find people who eat who've never taken semaglutide and ask them to imagine it might not be great to be on it".shpalman wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 5:22 pm Somehow there's an article which alludes to semaglutide for diabetes in which [a]n earlier subheading said that Leila Latif took semaglutide for diabetes, but she is not using that medication and does not have diabetes so just turns out to be about someone whose whole identity revolved around food who now has no appetite due to medication for an unspecified health condition.
[narrator]... but he did not return to the paper[/narrator]Johann Hari has apologised for plagiarising the work of others to improve his interviews and will take unpaid leave of absence from the paper until 2012.
Hari also apologised for editing the Wikipedia entries of people he had clashed with, using the pseudonym David Rose, "in ways that were juvenile or malicious", saying he was "mortified to have done this". He admitted calling "one of them antisemitic and homophobic, and the other a drunk".
Hari is also handing back the George Orwell prize he won as "an act of contrition for the errors I made elsewhere, in my interviews" and will undertake "a programme of journalism training" during his leave of absence.
It is understood that provided no more damaging revelations emerge about the journalist during his unpaid leave, the Independent editor, Chris Blackhurst, will allow him to return to the paper.
If anyone is interested this episode of Science Vs is very good on these types of pills https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-v ... we-thoughtshpalman wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 9:30 pmI seem to remember even the Guardian were confused about that when they published it.bob sterman wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 8:35 pm Yes - Hari is full of sh*t.
But in the case of Latif's article about taking a medication which reduces her desire for food - if you skim read it you could easily come away with the mistaken impression that the medication is semaglutide.
Yes, England’s new weight-loss drug kills your appetite – but as I know, that comes at a cost
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... e-diabetesThey really were scrabbling around for a negative narrative around this stuff. "Let's find people who eat who've never taken semaglutide and ask them to imagine it might not be great to be on it".shpalman wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 5:22 pm Somehow there's an article which alludes to semaglutide for diabetes in which [a]n earlier subheading said that Leila Latif took semaglutide for diabetes, but she is not using that medication and does not have diabetes so just turns out to be about someone whose whole identity revolved around food who now has no appetite due to medication for an unspecified health condition.
They too seem desperate to go in and set off some scary backlash before having to admit it's basically fine, the side effects are either rare or actually worse in the control group, or it might just not work out for everyone.Stranger Mouse wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 4:36 pmIf anyone is interested this episode of Science Vs is very good on these types of pills https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-v ... we-thoughtshpalman wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 9:30 pmI seem to remember even the Guardian were confused about that when they published it.bob sterman wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 8:35 pm Yes - Hari is full of sh*t.
But in the case of Latif's article about taking a medication which reduces her desire for food - if you skim read it you could easily come away with the mistaken impression that the medication is semaglutide.
Yes, England’s new weight-loss drug kills your appetite – but as I know, that comes at a cost
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... e-diabetesThey really were scrabbling around for a negative narrative around this stuff. "Let's find people who eat who've never taken semaglutide and ask them to imagine it might not be great to be on it".shpalman wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 5:22 pm Somehow there's an article which alludes to semaglutide for diabetes in which [a]n earlier subheading said that Leila Latif took semaglutide for diabetes, but she is not using that medication and does not have diabetes so just turns out to be about someone whose whole identity revolved around food who now has no appetite due to medication for an unspecified health condition.