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Malhotra is a controversial character. I have analysed all the independent sources (not those written by the subject himself) in the following table so the lead paragraph can give a balanced reflection of what the sources say. As time goes on and there are new sources and new points to be made please add to the table. Viv Hamilton ( talk) 19:03, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Source Type | Source | Year | Personal words | Ref to work |
---|---|---|---|---|
Positive Notability | ST5002016 | 2016 | Cardiologist | Founding Action on Sugar High Sugar |
KF2015 | 2015 | Cardiologist Anti-obesity expert |
Founding Action on Sugar Reducing sugar | |
Sustain | 2013 | Cardiologist Uses media profile |
Weaknesses of Responsibility Deal Choc filled vending machines in hospital | |
HSJ2013BME | 2013 | Interventional cardiologist specialist registrar Uses media profile |
Educate the public on health issues against big corporations’ profit making at the cost of increasing health risks to the general public, particularly children | |
HSJ2014BME | 2014 | Honorary Consultant Cardiologist Member of the Academy of Royal Colleges Obesity Group |
ignited debate over diagnosis: doctors’ treatment of simple cases that bring “no benefit to the patients” a culture of over-investigation” includes excessive use of antibiotics and imaging for non-sinister headaches | |
EvStd2014Supersmart | 2014 | Media Savvy Consultant Science Director Action on Sugar |
too much attention has been on saturated fat, while the dangers of sugar have been under-stated want to pressurise the Government to regulate the food industry to reduce the amount (of sugar) they’re spiking our food withs
| |
Critics Not all articles describe |
ButterNonsense | 2018 | Cardiologist dissident scientist |
chlorestrol sceptic statin critic |
sbm | 2020 | British Consultant Cardiologist statin denialist
|
circular reference This article quotes from WP article | |
ARS Technica | 2017 | Controversial UK Cardiologist |
high profile on media and television advocate of high fat diets |
I don't understand this table, and separating sources between "Positive Notability" and "Critics" is bound to lead to POV violations. -- Hipal ( talk) 19:06, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
I don't understand the separation of sources in this table and won't attempt to add to it.
A tweet in April 2020 from Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust states that Malhotra no longer holds the post of Honorary Consultant.
On the TV and in the Daily Mail articles it says he's a consultant at @FrimleyHealth but he's not listed on their website. All the other cardiology consultants are. Maybe they can confirm if he does indeed work there.
— SueB (@littlemissileo) April 28, 2020
Hi, Dr Malhotra used to work with us as an honorary consultant, but no longer works for the trust.
— Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust 💙 (@FrimleyHealth) April 28, 2020
Luther Blissetts ( talk) 08:34, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Malhotra was no longer working at Frimley Park Hospital by 31 August 2018. [1] Luther Blissetts ( talk) 23:13, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
A March 2019 article also states he was no longer an honorary consultant at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and mentions he was (in March 2019) a locum cardiologist at Lister Hospital in Stevenage: "3 Mar 2019:Dr Aseem Malhotra’s website says he is an ‘honorary consultant’ at both Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey and the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. However when The Mail on Sunday contacted Frimley, they said he did not currently work there. At the Lister, his secretary explained he was a locum – shiftworker – cardiologist who only saw patients there on a Wednesday afternoon. Dr Malhotra, 41, offers consultations at a Harley Street clinic, charging £500 for a first consultation, and £300 for a follow-up."Cite error: A <ref>
tag is missing the closing </ref>
(see the
help page).
[2]
More references to being an 'Honorary Consultant at Lister Hospital, Stevenage' and additionally as a cardiologist at 'ROC Private Clinic'
[3] are also mentioned on the reinsurer
Swiss Re website, where he has a live profile.
[4]
Malhotra gave a presentation entitled "Approaches to insulin sensitivity"
[5] at the Swiss Re Institute's Expert Forum on diabetes, Rüschlikon, 9 - 10 October 2017."
[6]
[7] He was involved in a panel discussion at the Swiss Re Institute Food for Thought" collaboration with the
BMJ, the following year in 2018, with Zoe Harcombe and Gary Taubes.
[8] In two presentation slides hosted by SwissRe from 2017
[9] and 2018
[10], Malhotra refers to himself as an "Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Lister Hospital Stevenage".
Luther Blissetts (
talk) 21:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
He practices privately from our offices in Harley Street where is available for second opinions as well as general cardiology consultations.
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Several paragraphs of the biographical and work history section read like they're written by the subject and are heavily biased. They are not neutral at all and I suggest rewriting to remove much of the glorified fluff. 82.8.55.103 ( talk) 01:32, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
The comments were removed due to being copied wholesale from the website of the subject."Doctor Aseem has updated the contents of the wikipedia page as previous edits were not according to facts. Please check www.doctoraseem.com before another edit is done.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.1.146.57 ( talk • contribs) 16:30, March 6, 2018 (UTC)"
Luther Blissetts ( talk) 05:27, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
The article goes on and on about NHS guidance, which we all know leads to an obese population, same for many western countries. No matter this article's editors' opinions about the diet, the article should restrict itself to a couple of paragraphs on the book, and a couple of paragraphs and published criticisms. The rest is just extra fluff.-- Tallard ( talk) 07:04, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Seems like a lot to take in ... Bon courage ( talk) 15:26, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
In which the BMA investigate the fallout of Malhotra falsely claiming to have received an award from the BMA chair, and note that he "holds views that are contrary to BMA policy, particularly regarding vaccination for prevention of SARS-CoV-2". Bon courage ( talk) 14:17, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
I firmly believe that the article, in its current shape, has way too much detail on the various controversies regarding cholesterol, statins, saturated fat etc. These are of course topics that Mr. Malhotra has opined on, but I don't think it's due to include entire paragraphs on what national health authorities recommend for human consumption in his biography. I do think we ought to describe the pushback Mr. Malhotra has received from various experts in context, but that ought to be more specific regarding the debate he has engaged in, rather than simply repeating what the general health guidelines recommend, which is already duly covered elsewhere in the Wikipedia. Nutez ( talk) 17:08, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
@ TheMouseMen: took a stab at cleaning it up [2], but attempting to do so in huge, single edit makes the edit summary far short of what's needed to move forward in this dispute, while making it impossible to review. Please work in smaller edits, ideally no more than a single section at a time. -- Hipal ( talk) 16:43, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
it is really interesting to see how much this person has changed, according to Wikipedia, in a single year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Aseem_Malhotra&diff=1128155984&oldid=996492464
So sad that wikipedia is being abused for politics and slander. How can somebody who advocates taking vaccines be Anti-Vax ?
This page is now subject to frequent minor changes by recently created accounts - particulalry on the vaccine content. Would it benefit from a reinstatement of some of the previous protections it had? Pocketfullofposies ( talk) 12:51, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
In particular, would value others' views on whether he should be described as controversial. This has been repeatedly removed by one edit accounts. To me, it seems a reasonable and unbiased term to describe someone where there is substantial disagreement about the quality and veracity of his advice, as evidence by the both the number of critical opinion and fact-checking articles in reputable news sources. But keen to be advised by others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pocketfullofposies ( talk • contribs) 02:45, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
As I read it, the source given does not say this of him. In the meantime, in his recent interview on the BBC, he said something on the lines of: they are useful for some patients and of marginal use for others. So it would be helpful to know what the source is for our statement that he has questioned the need ever to use statins. Springnuts ( talk) 17:34, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
On BBC radio, he went further. “It was actually probably an underestimate,” he said, and questioned the benefits of the drug for any patient, citing the cholesterol sceptic Michel de Lorgeril.
Then we should say that, rather than adding our own gloss. Springnuts ( talk) 18:43, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
The Guardian are clearly not seeking to represent his views fairly: they take a view, and that’s their right to do so. So they quote him in an BBC interview – they don’t give the date – as questioning the value of statins. It’s possible to question the value of something without saying it has no or negative value. From other things, he says it’s clear that thinks they are overvalued. But he does see them as having value in the right place for the right people. In his recent interview on the BBC he said that he has prescribed statins and that he sees the greatest benefit for those at the highest risk; especially those who have had a heart attack. So that does not sound like our summary of his position. Springnuts ( talk) 22:56, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
“I have prescribed statins, particularly to high-risk, people…“; “People who have had a heart attack or a high risk; that’s where we see the greatest benefit from statins“. He goes on to say that it is amongst lower risk patients that he does not think the blanket prescription of statins is the whole answer. I accessed it here [ [9]] but I assume it’s also still available on the BBC website. Springnuts ( talk) 11:06, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
BBC interview and hardly random. And the reference you give has only two substantive reference to him and statins: one that says that he considers them equal, or perhaps superior as a way of dealing with heart issues, and the other is his own tweet that he is critical of the overprescribing of statins. So it doesn’t support the statement in the article that he takes a blanket view opposing them. It’s difficult to judge the perennial Guardian as entirely a RS on this point, but nor would I want to use self-source to balance it. So my point is that we need better sources to make the encyclopaedia accurate, which it self-evidently is not at the moment (unless we are claiming that his words in the BBC interview and in the tweet in the source you mention are untrue, but we’d need some exceptionally RS for that). Springnuts ( talk) 20:07, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
That sounds like WP:SYNTH. There is no doubt that he "has questioned the worth of statins" - the precise point at issue is whether we can RS the specific statement that he believes statins "may not be of benefit to anybody"? The Guardian doesn't meet the standard for this, and nothing else you have offered does either. Springnuts ( talk) 20:29, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Nothing on this topic. Where and what did he study? I browsed the Internet and could not find anything. 90.198.173.41 ( talk) 10:07, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
Why do you add controversial? Who has the authority to declare or label someone controversial? Not Wikipedia. This is why I stopped supporting you. Please remove the controversial label to the person. Just give the facts and let the reader draw the conclusion. 24.50.25.23 ( talk) 18:28, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
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Current article states: Gorski was also concerned that telling people that they should be in control of their susceptibility to disease may have an element of victim blaming because that shifts responsibility for disease onto individuals, many of whom are unable to follow the kind of diet Malhotra advocates.[1]
However the article that was provided does not target people to be "in control of their susceptibility to disease may have an element of victim blaming", it states: "there is considerable victim blaming among the 'nutrition cures everything' crowd". 208.74.183.242 ( talk) 14:52, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
many of whom are unable to follow the kind of diet Malhotra advocates, which is supported elsewhere in the source:
Even if nutrition could prevent coronavirus, Dr. Malhotra’s is a very privileged position that basically excludes those unable to “optimize metabolic health”. These “nutrition cures and prevents #COVID19” people labor under a delusion of privilege in that they have the time, resources, and luxury to “optimize their metabolism”. There’s also a subtext of victim blaming where it’s your fault if you get sick because you didn’t “optimize your nutrition”. And, make no mistake, victim blaming is rampant among these “nutrition prevents/cures COVID-19” propagandists.
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The quoted section (below) makes statements that are not supported by the stated source. The source in itself is an opinion piece in a newspaper, which also lists other various stated sources. However, I could not locate any quote from the British Heart Foundation that is reflecting the quoted section (below). The section is therefore misleading in its nature and should be removed or corrected with an accurate source.
“His views on diet and health have been criticized by the British Heart Foundation as "misleading and wrong", and his public questioning of the need ever to use statins has been condemned as a danger to public health.[10]” Rockmonkey77 ( talk) 12:04, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
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Remove "contrary to the available evidence" from the second paragraph. It's biased and ignores the evidence Aseem has presented in his own paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20221002153738/https://insulinresistance.org/index.php/jir/article/view/71 Mhammett ( talk) 17:06, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Hope this message finds you well.
We have written to request the removal of the information that Mr. Dr Aseem Malhotra is a visiting professor at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health.
We kindly ask you not to identify the Dr as a current Visiting Professor at Bahiana in your resume or social media.
Yours sincerely, EBMSP - Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública ( talk) 17:09, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
An edit has now been made to show that Malhotra's Visiting Professorship at Bahiana is not current. Malhotra's visit to Bahiana as a visiting professor and guest speaker was supported by the Institutional Relationship and Internationalization Center of Bahiana (REAII), as part of their internationalisation initiative. Malhotra was a guest speaker at Bahiana's July 2018 international symposium which focused on the upcoming launch of the school's Center for Evidence Based Medicine in September 2018. I found more references - six in total - mentioning Malhotra on the University's website. In order of publication:
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Many of his claims about the dangers of the MRNA vaccines have been backed by scientific research. Either show accurate information, or be honest that Wikipedia has a policial leaning. 2600:8806:9097:F600:252F:AA0C:993B:F005 ( talk) 19:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
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Malhotra is a controversial character. I have analysed all the independent sources (not those written by the subject himself) in the following table so the lead paragraph can give a balanced reflection of what the sources say. As time goes on and there are new sources and new points to be made please add to the table. Viv Hamilton ( talk) 19:03, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Source Type | Source | Year | Personal words | Ref to work |
---|---|---|---|---|
Positive Notability | ST5002016 | 2016 | Cardiologist | Founding Action on Sugar High Sugar |
KF2015 | 2015 | Cardiologist Anti-obesity expert |
Founding Action on Sugar Reducing sugar | |
Sustain | 2013 | Cardiologist Uses media profile |
Weaknesses of Responsibility Deal Choc filled vending machines in hospital | |
HSJ2013BME | 2013 | Interventional cardiologist specialist registrar Uses media profile |
Educate the public on health issues against big corporations’ profit making at the cost of increasing health risks to the general public, particularly children | |
HSJ2014BME | 2014 | Honorary Consultant Cardiologist Member of the Academy of Royal Colleges Obesity Group |
ignited debate over diagnosis: doctors’ treatment of simple cases that bring “no benefit to the patients” a culture of over-investigation” includes excessive use of antibiotics and imaging for non-sinister headaches | |
EvStd2014Supersmart | 2014 | Media Savvy Consultant Science Director Action on Sugar |
too much attention has been on saturated fat, while the dangers of sugar have been under-stated want to pressurise the Government to regulate the food industry to reduce the amount (of sugar) they’re spiking our food withs
| |
Critics Not all articles describe |
ButterNonsense | 2018 | Cardiologist dissident scientist |
chlorestrol sceptic statin critic |
sbm | 2020 | British Consultant Cardiologist statin denialist
|
circular reference This article quotes from WP article | |
ARS Technica | 2017 | Controversial UK Cardiologist |
high profile on media and television advocate of high fat diets |
I don't understand this table, and separating sources between "Positive Notability" and "Critics" is bound to lead to POV violations. -- Hipal ( talk) 19:06, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
I don't understand the separation of sources in this table and won't attempt to add to it.
A tweet in April 2020 from Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust states that Malhotra no longer holds the post of Honorary Consultant.
On the TV and in the Daily Mail articles it says he's a consultant at @FrimleyHealth but he's not listed on their website. All the other cardiology consultants are. Maybe they can confirm if he does indeed work there.
— SueB (@littlemissileo) April 28, 2020
Hi, Dr Malhotra used to work with us as an honorary consultant, but no longer works for the trust.
— Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust 💙 (@FrimleyHealth) April 28, 2020
Luther Blissetts ( talk) 08:34, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Malhotra was no longer working at Frimley Park Hospital by 31 August 2018. [1] Luther Blissetts ( talk) 23:13, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
A March 2019 article also states he was no longer an honorary consultant at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and mentions he was (in March 2019) a locum cardiologist at Lister Hospital in Stevenage: "3 Mar 2019:Dr Aseem Malhotra’s website says he is an ‘honorary consultant’ at both Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey and the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. However when The Mail on Sunday contacted Frimley, they said he did not currently work there. At the Lister, his secretary explained he was a locum – shiftworker – cardiologist who only saw patients there on a Wednesday afternoon. Dr Malhotra, 41, offers consultations at a Harley Street clinic, charging £500 for a first consultation, and £300 for a follow-up."Cite error: A <ref>
tag is missing the closing </ref>
(see the
help page).
[2]
More references to being an 'Honorary Consultant at Lister Hospital, Stevenage' and additionally as a cardiologist at 'ROC Private Clinic'
[3] are also mentioned on the reinsurer
Swiss Re website, where he has a live profile.
[4]
Malhotra gave a presentation entitled "Approaches to insulin sensitivity"
[5] at the Swiss Re Institute's Expert Forum on diabetes, Rüschlikon, 9 - 10 October 2017."
[6]
[7] He was involved in a panel discussion at the Swiss Re Institute Food for Thought" collaboration with the
BMJ, the following year in 2018, with Zoe Harcombe and Gary Taubes.
[8] In two presentation slides hosted by SwissRe from 2017
[9] and 2018
[10], Malhotra refers to himself as an "Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Lister Hospital Stevenage".
Luther Blissetts (
talk) 21:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
He practices privately from our offices in Harley Street where is available for second opinions as well as general cardiology consultations.
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cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (
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Several paragraphs of the biographical and work history section read like they're written by the subject and are heavily biased. They are not neutral at all and I suggest rewriting to remove much of the glorified fluff. 82.8.55.103 ( talk) 01:32, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
The comments were removed due to being copied wholesale from the website of the subject."Doctor Aseem has updated the contents of the wikipedia page as previous edits were not according to facts. Please check www.doctoraseem.com before another edit is done.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.1.146.57 ( talk • contribs) 16:30, March 6, 2018 (UTC)"
Luther Blissetts ( talk) 05:27, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
The article goes on and on about NHS guidance, which we all know leads to an obese population, same for many western countries. No matter this article's editors' opinions about the diet, the article should restrict itself to a couple of paragraphs on the book, and a couple of paragraphs and published criticisms. The rest is just extra fluff.-- Tallard ( talk) 07:04, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Seems like a lot to take in ... Bon courage ( talk) 15:26, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
In which the BMA investigate the fallout of Malhotra falsely claiming to have received an award from the BMA chair, and note that he "holds views that are contrary to BMA policy, particularly regarding vaccination for prevention of SARS-CoV-2". Bon courage ( talk) 14:17, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
I firmly believe that the article, in its current shape, has way too much detail on the various controversies regarding cholesterol, statins, saturated fat etc. These are of course topics that Mr. Malhotra has opined on, but I don't think it's due to include entire paragraphs on what national health authorities recommend for human consumption in his biography. I do think we ought to describe the pushback Mr. Malhotra has received from various experts in context, but that ought to be more specific regarding the debate he has engaged in, rather than simply repeating what the general health guidelines recommend, which is already duly covered elsewhere in the Wikipedia. Nutez ( talk) 17:08, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
@ TheMouseMen: took a stab at cleaning it up [2], but attempting to do so in huge, single edit makes the edit summary far short of what's needed to move forward in this dispute, while making it impossible to review. Please work in smaller edits, ideally no more than a single section at a time. -- Hipal ( talk) 16:43, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
it is really interesting to see how much this person has changed, according to Wikipedia, in a single year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Aseem_Malhotra&diff=1128155984&oldid=996492464
So sad that wikipedia is being abused for politics and slander. How can somebody who advocates taking vaccines be Anti-Vax ?
This page is now subject to frequent minor changes by recently created accounts - particulalry on the vaccine content. Would it benefit from a reinstatement of some of the previous protections it had? Pocketfullofposies ( talk) 12:51, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
In particular, would value others' views on whether he should be described as controversial. This has been repeatedly removed by one edit accounts. To me, it seems a reasonable and unbiased term to describe someone where there is substantial disagreement about the quality and veracity of his advice, as evidence by the both the number of critical opinion and fact-checking articles in reputable news sources. But keen to be advised by others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pocketfullofposies ( talk • contribs) 02:45, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
As I read it, the source given does not say this of him. In the meantime, in his recent interview on the BBC, he said something on the lines of: they are useful for some patients and of marginal use for others. So it would be helpful to know what the source is for our statement that he has questioned the need ever to use statins. Springnuts ( talk) 17:34, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
On BBC radio, he went further. “It was actually probably an underestimate,” he said, and questioned the benefits of the drug for any patient, citing the cholesterol sceptic Michel de Lorgeril.
Then we should say that, rather than adding our own gloss. Springnuts ( talk) 18:43, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
The Guardian are clearly not seeking to represent his views fairly: they take a view, and that’s their right to do so. So they quote him in an BBC interview – they don’t give the date – as questioning the value of statins. It’s possible to question the value of something without saying it has no or negative value. From other things, he says it’s clear that thinks they are overvalued. But he does see them as having value in the right place for the right people. In his recent interview on the BBC he said that he has prescribed statins and that he sees the greatest benefit for those at the highest risk; especially those who have had a heart attack. So that does not sound like our summary of his position. Springnuts ( talk) 22:56, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
“I have prescribed statins, particularly to high-risk, people…“; “People who have had a heart attack or a high risk; that’s where we see the greatest benefit from statins“. He goes on to say that it is amongst lower risk patients that he does not think the blanket prescription of statins is the whole answer. I accessed it here [ [9]] but I assume it’s also still available on the BBC website. Springnuts ( talk) 11:06, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
BBC interview and hardly random. And the reference you give has only two substantive reference to him and statins: one that says that he considers them equal, or perhaps superior as a way of dealing with heart issues, and the other is his own tweet that he is critical of the overprescribing of statins. So it doesn’t support the statement in the article that he takes a blanket view opposing them. It’s difficult to judge the perennial Guardian as entirely a RS on this point, but nor would I want to use self-source to balance it. So my point is that we need better sources to make the encyclopaedia accurate, which it self-evidently is not at the moment (unless we are claiming that his words in the BBC interview and in the tweet in the source you mention are untrue, but we’d need some exceptionally RS for that). Springnuts ( talk) 20:07, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
That sounds like WP:SYNTH. There is no doubt that he "has questioned the worth of statins" - the precise point at issue is whether we can RS the specific statement that he believes statins "may not be of benefit to anybody"? The Guardian doesn't meet the standard for this, and nothing else you have offered does either. Springnuts ( talk) 20:29, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Nothing on this topic. Where and what did he study? I browsed the Internet and could not find anything. 90.198.173.41 ( talk) 10:07, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
Why do you add controversial? Who has the authority to declare or label someone controversial? Not Wikipedia. This is why I stopped supporting you. Please remove the controversial label to the person. Just give the facts and let the reader draw the conclusion. 24.50.25.23 ( talk) 18:28, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
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Current article states: Gorski was also concerned that telling people that they should be in control of their susceptibility to disease may have an element of victim blaming because that shifts responsibility for disease onto individuals, many of whom are unable to follow the kind of diet Malhotra advocates.[1]
However the article that was provided does not target people to be "in control of their susceptibility to disease may have an element of victim blaming", it states: "there is considerable victim blaming among the 'nutrition cures everything' crowd". 208.74.183.242 ( talk) 14:52, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
many of whom are unable to follow the kind of diet Malhotra advocates, which is supported elsewhere in the source:
Even if nutrition could prevent coronavirus, Dr. Malhotra’s is a very privileged position that basically excludes those unable to “optimize metabolic health”. These “nutrition cures and prevents #COVID19” people labor under a delusion of privilege in that they have the time, resources, and luxury to “optimize their metabolism”. There’s also a subtext of victim blaming where it’s your fault if you get sick because you didn’t “optimize your nutrition”. And, make no mistake, victim blaming is rampant among these “nutrition prevents/cures COVID-19” propagandists.
What in particular are you looking to have changed? Tollens ( talk) 16:50, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
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The quoted section (below) makes statements that are not supported by the stated source. The source in itself is an opinion piece in a newspaper, which also lists other various stated sources. However, I could not locate any quote from the British Heart Foundation that is reflecting the quoted section (below). The section is therefore misleading in its nature and should be removed or corrected with an accurate source.
“His views on diet and health have been criticized by the British Heart Foundation as "misleading and wrong", and his public questioning of the need ever to use statins has been condemned as a danger to public health.[10]” Rockmonkey77 ( talk) 12:04, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
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Remove "contrary to the available evidence" from the second paragraph. It's biased and ignores the evidence Aseem has presented in his own paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20221002153738/https://insulinresistance.org/index.php/jir/article/view/71 Mhammett ( talk) 17:06, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Hope this message finds you well.
We have written to request the removal of the information that Mr. Dr Aseem Malhotra is a visiting professor at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health.
We kindly ask you not to identify the Dr as a current Visiting Professor at Bahiana in your resume or social media.
Yours sincerely, EBMSP - Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública ( talk) 17:09, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
An edit has now been made to show that Malhotra's Visiting Professorship at Bahiana is not current. Malhotra's visit to Bahiana as a visiting professor and guest speaker was supported by the Institutional Relationship and Internationalization Center of Bahiana (REAII), as part of their internationalisation initiative. Malhotra was a guest speaker at Bahiana's July 2018 international symposium which focused on the upcoming launch of the school's Center for Evidence Based Medicine in September 2018. I found more references - six in total - mentioning Malhotra on the University's website. In order of publication:
Luther Blissetts ( talk) 21:15, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
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Many of his claims about the dangers of the MRNA vaccines have been backed by scientific research. Either show accurate information, or be honest that Wikipedia has a policial leaning. 2600:8806:9097:F600:252F:AA0C:993B:F005 ( talk) 19:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)