are actually enemies of democracy.

A good scientist, you've got to be able to question your own theories.

The scientific integrity.

Hello and welcome everyone to episode 400 of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

We're at something of a milestone here today.

So thank you for everyone who has listened to the podcast over however many years or months you may have been listening up to now.

And if you are brand new to the podcast, and I hope you enjoy this as well.

So to mark the 400th episode of the podcast,

we're going to do something a little bit special

and a kind of one-off,

different to our usual type of episodes.

And for those who regularly listen to the episodes

that Alan and I do,

you'll know one of our favorite segments to have included is our short little quack asylum segment towards the end of many of those discussions.

And so we thought it might be useful to take some of the chief offenders and members of the quack asylum and to be able to explain in a bit more detail why exactly

they are in there and maybe to highlight some things that might be useful for you to go

forward and to screen other quacks with. So at least that's the idea if that sounds good to you,

Alan. Yeah, I'm honored to be here for the 400th episode and definitely looking forward to this.

I think, you know, the quack asylum has gone down well.

I think it's given people some basic laughs.

As listeners will probably know, we tend to keep the quack asylum specific to the topic on the episodes.

So a lot of episodes we've covered, you know, from cholesterol or sodium and cardiovascular disease or any of these kind of broad topics, it's not particularly difficult

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