Comments on: DORE breakthrough published in, ummm ‘Leamington Courier’

By: Autism Blog - Dore UK and Australia are now both in administration | Left Brain/Right Brain

Fri, 23 May 2008 17:16:18 +0000

[...] noted on this blog and elsewhere, Dore has been marketed as a treatment for ASDs (not to mention dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD) based [...]

By: Dore UK go into administration « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Fri, 23 May 2008 16:37:22 +0000

[...] of blogs noted the limited evidence for Dore’s efficacy – among others, see Bad Science, Brainduck, Gimpy, Left Brain/Right Brain, Podblack, and right here on HolfordWatch – while Gimpy raised the [...]

By: Dore Australia goes into administration « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Sun, 18 May 2008 11:56:25 +0000

[...] rather implausible ‘treatment’ for dyslexia and dyspraxia, now also being marketed for autistic spectrum disorders – on this blog in the past. We found that Dore’s research was extremely poor but they are [...]

By: Dore Australia go into administration? Updated « gimpy’s blog

Dore Australia go into administration? *Updated* « gimpy’s blog — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:31:50 +0000

[...] of note, brainduck has an excellent examination of some of the problems of Dore’s research here and here while Ben Goldacre has covered it here. Dore research has been so flawed that their [...]

By: Autism Spectrums And DORE Speculations « PodBlack Blog

Autism Spectrums And DORE Speculations « PodBlack Blog — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:49:21 +0000

[...] Autism Spectrums And DORE Speculations Jump to Comments So, I’m still waiting on a reply from DORE Australia, after reading a great blogger on the topic of DORE. You see, I have an unanswered question. [...]

By: Are Dore in deep finanical doo doo? « gimpy’s blog

Are Dore in deep finanical doo doo? « gimpy’s blog — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:43:51 +0000

[...] on January 28, 2008 Dore, the dubious dyslexia people, have recently come under criticism from brainduck and holfordwatch for publishing their research claiming to successfully treat Autism Spectrum [...]

By: Dore releases news of groundbreaking autism treatment in the prestigious medical journal The Leamington Courier « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:13:55 +0000

[...] course, Dore shouldn’t make us guess like this. As BrainDuck puts it publishing science by press-release to local papers first is Not On, particularly when said [...]

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:21:47 +0000

Oh nicely done Brainduck.
I read the article before the post and you picked out the things that stood out to me too; poor science and lack of peer review, choosing to make such an ‘important’ announcement in a local paper and the irritating disablist language.
The low standards of science in much autism research really bugs me. I’d like to mention the lack of ethics too, but after reading about the fella mentioned in your earlier post (Obi), I’ve gone off the word for a while.

By: brainduck

brainduck — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:38:43 +0000

It’s very near what seems to be their ‘research’ HQ at Kenilworth.
I suspect it’s mostly just press-release on ‘local organisation done good’ as filler.
It does not say much for what DORE think of their own research if they want to give the ‘Leamington Chronicle’ an international scoop on it!
BTW Tom – how did you find me, & do I know you from somewhere else? Feel free to bung me an email, but I like to fit together who I’m talking to.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:21:45 +0000

One of the company directors lives in Leamington, I suspect this is a bit of free advertising as a favour to a friend.

It always surprises me how this gets into the daily mail so often and the Times as well in fact. Each time ‘a breakthrough’! Again, its just advertising.