Thread 12: 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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No saltiness. Keep to the path.
Will our life-size cardboard cut-out Simon Armitage keep his head?
NB Timeline coming in the first posts of this thread for reference.

I actually wrote to her about that brain scan issue this week with a hypothesis based on some medical publications. She said it was very interesting, so I wonder if it comes up in any future publication (also possible she talks to some neurologist about it and they say I've misunderstood something).

That's shocking. No way can that be described as anything other than deliberately misleading imo. What on earth were the publishers thinking?

Eta: referring to the book quote

Fascinating (as a non-LL reader)...and what I believe to be a pack of lies. The fact she brings "others with CBD" into the equation is, in my mind, wholly irresponsible, deplorable and "highly misleading" when also talking about Moth's alleged improvement.

BTW, I loved how CH used the phrase "highly misleading" in her latest (seemed to be a nod to RW's statement).

@FurryHappyKittens do you think it’s worth maybe adding some of the timing inconsistencies to the timeline that people have flagged today?

Well, that would help you no end as you would need to be vetted on how accurate your cricket knowledge actually is. I'm not sure we accept disclaimers.

This is from Landlines, I found it in a free online sample, it's on page 65/66 there (probably different pages than in the physical book).
But my impression is that she and also PRH were getting bolder the longer they got away with it.
https://www.overdrive.com/media/8833265/landlines

I'm on it, just slowly. But others are welcome to do the same and I can just add anything I've noted that seems missing.

Yes, but also it's not her making that claim, or any named/identifiable medical professional, but unspecified people writing letters - letters which were probably eaten by the dog in case anyone ever wants to see them...

Morning all. I'm quite relieved to come back and not find you all at 950 posts since last night. Still a bit of catching up to do though.

You have to register a death within 6 weeks, so the earliest possible date of death here would be mid November 2014.

Imagine being a CBD sufferer and reading that. It's downright cruel.

Today’s “revelations” feel a bit like clutching at straws to me. Got to keep the story running.

The book’s sales have shot up in the meantime.

I still think there is a lot of misunderstanding of how publishing works on these threads, most of which has been said already.

Just read - what a load of exaggerated nonsense. One minute Moth has paralysing vertigo, the next he's reassuring Ray and jumping into a river. Curious to know what waterfall and where this was as I probably know it. I believe they visited the Falls of Glomach which is a large waterfall on a marginally exposed path, but this description doesn't tally with that.

How would all these medical professionals know he’d rallied so significantly to write to Raymoth?

I think low cal diets can mean less inflammation in body - what Ray is driving at here re: nutrition?

Do we now have evidence TSP didn’t take place when they said it did, not all completed & maybe this is why some insta posts removed?

Locals commenting on articles on TSP said that the part of book where road/path closed for military manoeuvres likely untrue as only ever ‘closed’ for filming. Anyone confirm/deny?

It sounds like they were deliberately waiting to be challenged so they could fit it into their narrative.

Correction - sales of TSP have continued to FALL since the film was released in late May as well as post the Observer article which appeared 4 weeks ago.. During the last 6 weeks sales have declined as follows: 14,145/12,280/9,245/7,535/6,235 to 5,680 last week.

I agree that Moths miracle fire would be very worthy of an academic paper or 3.

The problem there is the risk of patient identification, which would be pretty easy in a case study of 1! For this reason, I believe that TW would need to give consent for his details to be used in the writing of the paper. If he refused consent I think it would be very difficult to write anything that could be published during TW's lifetime.

Absolutely. “The others with CBD” …. I don’t even know where to begin with this. She can back-peddle all she likes on this issue but the damage has been done and is written right there in the books. “An all noodle diet” being considered as a miracle cure. That alone makes me angry. I can toss her books aside and seethe but the genuinely ill people who might have suddenly disputed and rejected what their own doctors or specialists told them because of their faith in what SW/RW has written on the subject have likely declined in health and now have no hope at all. What does she have to say to all of those readers and their families? Ooops sorry I made a mistake?

Or maybe it was the very low-calorie diet we survived on because we couldn't afford to eat

To think that this might have resulted in even one person with a serious, degenerative illness subjecting themselves to a low-calorie, poor-nutrition diet in the hope it may help boils my blood.

Maybe I’ve missed something but what’s to say Moth doesn’t have MS or Parkinsons?

RW wrote in TSP that Parkinsons was ruled out. If we are to believe her is another matter.

Me too. I’m getting serious Belle Gibson vibes here (ie ‘100 juices a day keeps the cancer away…’)

Maybe she also thought CBS/CBD was a relatively safe choice of condition to mention, because it’s so rare and so little is known about it. I don’t think she imagined people would be poring over every little detail of where it’s mentioned in her books.

Or they are just very entitled individuals.

They're v different diseases and easy to tell apart on scans.