@Garwboy@ohai.social
Was asked to appear on the radio, to discuss Zack Polanski's previous job of offering hypnotherapy for breast enlargement
While unavailable for this obvious hit piece, if you're legit worried about 'politicians saying/doing things that aren't evidence based', there are far more prominent examples
I was at a recording of the Guilty Feminist podcast last week where Deborah Francis White specifically asked him about this. He did answer. He'd been doing community theatre around body confidence and a journalist got in touch. When she asked him to do this he'd first said 'no' but then gone along with it as long as they made clear it was a silly "experiment". He wasn't expecting them to claim it "worked". That episode will probably be out in the next few weeks.
He shouldn't have gone along with their ask. It sounds as though he realised that immediately after. He also should have been more suspicious of journalists. I've been interviewed by print journalists twice and both times I've been very suspicious of how they might distort things (although both turned out ok) for an angle. One asked me whether the research I'd done was driven by "feminism or a data obsession". I rejected the "or" of their question.
