Interesting. I wonder if Dr. Persaud will remain a regular on "Richard and Judy" the current Channel4 5pm -6pm slot. Interesting - all we can do is wait and see, IMHO
Of course, another one of their old 'experts' from their ITV days - the absurd ex-alcoholic 'therapist' Beechy Colclough - has recently been exposed as a bit too touchy feely for some of his patients' liking. They sure know how to pick 'em!
In 2005 Persaud was accused of plagiarism. Thomas Blass, professor of psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, alleged that a large proportion of Persaud's article in Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry (Volume 9, Issue 2) had been taken word for word from Blass's work on Stanley Milgram's 1963 "obedience" experiments, as had an earlier article in the Times Educational Supplement. Persaud claimed this had been due to an error, and offered to apologise for not crediting Blass.
An article about Scientology's relationship to psychiatry in The Independent of June 30, 2005 was found to have used parts of a publication of the Canadian Professor Stephen A. Kent without attribution. The paper blamed a "production error" and altered the article in its web archives to properly attribute Kent.
In December 2005, it was announced that two of his articles would be retracted from the British Medical Journal and Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry publications, while his work is reviewed by a panel from the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College.
In April 2006, he resigned as host of BBC Radio 4's All In The Mind show because of the controversy.
Any feeling deprived BBC Radio 4 listeners can now tune in to Channel 5's new series for their um er er Guru (or the-bleeding-obvious, depending on your view)
I caught the end of the channel five show this morning. The theme was phobias, and a woman rang up to say that she had a phobia of birds. I would have thought it was quite a common phobia, and that if I was going to present myself as an expert on phobias that I'd have done a spot of research first. Both Dr Raj and the other doctor agreed that there was a name for this phobia, but neither of them knew what it was. They also advised her that it was an easy one to get over and she didn't need specialist help.
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