Thread 3: To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

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The Observer The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

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That's just Google being Google. It is hopeless with identifying images of people. A profile page on LinkedIn will include photos of others, but Google regularly fails to differentiate and tags them all as being of the profile owner. If you take the photo of the woman in a green dress, for example, she is Tara Schmidlen, Clinical Content Lead at Nest Genomics. If you do a Google image search for her, you will get a number of images of people. Most of them are her or could be her, but one is a man and at least one of the women is definitely not her.

A bit off topic but for all of us with neuro conditions - in my more cruel moments sometimes I think I have come up with a new use for Elon Musk's otherwise quite scary sounding neurolink brain chip thing.

It would never work in practice and is not all ethical but...

I call it the Doctozap.

A means by which for a very limited period of time obviously you could beam your symptoms into the health professional's own body and just say, "Feels like that."

For purely diagnostic purposes only and not because you're completely fed up of explaining for the millionth time.

For them only to say, "And is that painful?"

Pure fantasy of course. And very nasty of me. And this is just a bit of dark humour.

Apologies if this has already been posted but it tickled me

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/walking-doesnt-cure-terminal-illness-the-salt-path-fact-checked-20250708258488

I've seen few reels from bookshops reclassifying the books!

One, not this one, put it into True Crime!!!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL2LfObI0Ak/?igsh=MTltbHU4eHo3c2oxaA==

Did they even walk it?’

A book about a walk which ascends an estimated four Everests in total should surely mention the terrain. As in the thing you swear at on walks. But Winn and Moth glide along the coast as if it were the travelator at Luton Airport while fuelled only by Pot Noodles.

Thank you for The Daily Mash!!!
😂😂😂😂😂

The photos of the 4 people mentioned all link to the same woman on Linkedin who seems to have a fairly eminent medical research career from her profile. She closely resembles the woman whose Insta post you quoted but I'm not confident to say that it is her.

I'm not going to link anything because a)I might be wrong b) it could be someone else using her name and c) I think this thread is probably ruffling a few feathers if Marina Hyde has mentioned it. However, if it is her, I'm quite surprised at someone with her background saying what she did.

....rather than being just a long, dishonest personal whinge.

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Also published by Penguin.

They used to be a reputable publisher. Penguin's list used to be full of academic titles, top crime writers, classic children's fiction.

Marina Hyde said Mumsnetters and Tattlers would be all over the story, but wasn't referencing any current threads.

So Harry will be associated with a book that is inaccurate and at times unnecessarily unkind about former close associates, while downplaying the author’s own role in their downfall? 😀

I strongly suspect they will flee to somewhere like Thailand or South America and change their names again rather than stay here and try to brazen it out. Pursued by several journalists!

I remember the Puffin Club:

https://puffinclub.co.uk/history

Ah, I misunderstood the post, thanks. I don't think we're that important 😁honestly!

Goa perhaps

😂😂

I reckon canoeing in Panama would be on brand

Elle Macpherson has said publicly that she has cancer and has said she treated it by eating healthily rather than via chemo and surgery

• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-07/elle-macpherson-holistic-approach-breast-cancer-treatment-nanny/104320226
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/08/elle-macpherson-cancer-alternative-medicine

Also, a bit off-topic, but I thought it was telling that EM was in a relationship with Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who was struck off the medical register after claiming MMR vaccines cause autism.

• https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/the-body-and-the-phoney-elle-macpherson-dating-andrew-wakefield-h0d6fvdlz

😂😂 in the film, they do make it really idyllic. And the only times when they seem to get into hot water are because they pitch their tent in places they shouldn’t (a farmer’s field, on a beach) rather than because of the walking route. The film made the route seem like a piece of cake! I’m sure it’s not - not least because it’s over 600 miles!

It needs to be somewhere politically unstable or just a bit wild so they can fake their own kidnapping.

Pay ransom now!

I would love a bookshop to repackage her books under the new title ‘Fibonacci Sequence’

• Volume 1: The Pinch of Salt Path (formerly: The Salt Path)
• Volume 2: The Defiled Silence (The Wild Silence)
• Volume 3: Land Lies (Landlines)
• Volume 4: And Still I Shill (On Winter Hill)

What does she mean? ‘Neuro Units’ are multi (many multis!) millions of dollars?

...or, they could do ayahuasca with a shaman, in New Mexico which will be Moth's next miracle cure and then go on Joe Rogan for three hours to describe the experience and peddle the same tale to an unexpecting US audience.

"Jamie, pull up that Salt Path, will you? Is it literally a path made of salt? Interesting."

@LittlePickleHead what is your friend’s book please? I would love to read something similar to the salt path that isn’t made up BS!

Know it’s a derail but was the first thing I thought about re Penguins involvement in this … Kaye Webb ( founder of the Puffin club ) was a complete Star & did so much for a generation of children .

I listened to the interview with Chloe on LBC today and apparently she thought it might ruffle a few feathers but nothing like what has happened. She also said there's stuff to be investigated, and that could happen over time.

So that seems to be it from the Observer's perspective.

Also ‘recollections may vary..’