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If you're going to make a bold claim like that, shouldn't you provide some support? Otherwise you're expecting us to just take an anonymous person's word for it... and particularly a throwaway account.

You're saying "discount science based not on facts, but on the form in which such science is published" which is utterly unscientific

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More like "discount anything coming out of the mouth of a CEO", which makes perfect sense.

Not only does that also not make sense, but guests on the show are not strictly CEOs, which further supports the view that this shallow dismissal is indeed unsupported by evidence.

It's a podcast. They're only useful for entertainment. If you take advice from them in a meaningful way you're effectively rolling the dice on tabloid grade slop factories.

That's a different statement from the one in the original comment which singles out DOAC as an untrustworthy source

So do the BBC, now (the people who employ him on Dragon's Den, the UK shark tank show)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpz163vg2o

You're right that it was an ignorant statement on my part.

I did reply to another comment about my concerns about Diary of a CEO in the context of nutrition advice.

Looks like concerns about the host, not about the content the interviewees share.

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