Some of you may already be aware of this internet phenomenon. In March of 2010, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, researcher and author of the infamous book The China Study, which is looked upon as the holy grail by many in the vegan/vegetarian/WPBD community, wrote a long 1-star review titled "Imaginary Science" of the Atkins book New Atkins for a New You. You can see it here:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Atkins-Yo...erBy=addOneStar

What is somewhat amazing to me is that the comments for this review have been ongoing ever since, now reaching close to 1600. The initial comments were mainly from Campbell minions who were summoned to the review by their master from his website and who predictably contributed only hot air, inane platitudes of Campbell, and misinformation, notably about the cause of Atkin's death but also on a lot of other factual information related to low carb diets.

Recently the comments have primarily been fueled by another infamous Amazon reviewer named D.M. and the copy-and-paste rantings of a certifiable vegan nutjob named William J. Kleinbauer. Yet periodically even Campbell himself will enter the fray although apparently not as a passionless objective observer as his last post as well as a few others was deleted by Amazon. He is particularly chaffed by any criticism of his book or discussion of the Chris Masterjohn/Denise Minger blog entries which ripped apart his study. It turns out The China Study is apparently not so much an actual study as it is a work of vegan propaganda.

Read the comments here if you dare:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2W7KW...#wasThisHelpful

Yeah, I've seen that train wreck of a thread. IIRC Richard Nikoley of Free the Animal jumped in a while back and things got very entertaining.

I'm sure it was as I believe Richard's blog was one of the first to publicize Minger's criticisms of the China Study and helped spread the word about her work. There is probably no love lost between him and T. Colin.

Denise herself even put in an appearance for a little while and tore up some of DM's arguments. Someone (not saying who, cough cough!) apparently told her that TCC was in there making outrageous statements. We didnt hear from him for quite a while after that... he seems to avoid her like the plague, haha.

LOL, as well he should. For a lot of people, myself included, she has illustrated quite clearly and convincingly what a propaganda machine TCC actually is.

I tried reading it, but the self-righteous attitude of so many of the commenters quickly became sickening. Best example:




Yeah, because giving up bread, cake, cookies, chips, fries, soda, pizza, pasta and candy bars is just the refuge of greedy and lazy people who would rather keep their bad habits than find health.

Disgusting.

This is entertaining reading for a long afternoon! Thank you!

Sure is entertaining, even though the vegan posts raise my BP. Has anyone else noticed a lot of the pro-TCC posts are collapsed (ha!) But does anyone else find it annoying? It makes it much harder to follow the conversation.

They are collapsed because they've been voted as being not helpful by the readers. It appears to take 7 not helpful votes to close a post. Believe me, you aren't missing anything at all, but if you think you are you can show unhelpful posts for an entire page. But you aren't.

LOL. Just saw this thread. I wrote the top 5 star review of the Atkins book on Amazon. It was in response to TTC's original attack review. He is not only colossally inaccurate but pathetic as well.

Well done, yours is a very well-written review.

Since I first wrote this thread about eight months ago the number of responses to Campbell's review has doubled from 1600 to 3200. Most have been from wonky Willie Kleinblowhole, a vegan cut-and-paste propagandist, but old Confirmation Bias Campbell has weighed in several times himself. There are about ten low-carb or paleo people who actively respond and likely many more who are reading and lurking. It is amusing to see the plant-heads get all worked up and froth at the mouth but they deserve it.

My theory is that these people think that if they repeat their fallacies enough times, they will become true. I followed CW and tried vegan as well and I got fatter. Eating high fat, low carb has help me lose nearly 70 lbs that I battled for years. I am also far healthier. Thus my experience tells me that they are dead wrong and that the cherry picked data in the China Study is just so much BS.