The University of Sydney’s Epic Diabetes Fraud, the biggest medical scandal in Australia’s history
Robertson formally disputed the “finding”, based as it is on misinterpreted and unreliable (including faked) data, with Brand-Miller and University management responding by dishonestly pretending there is no problem.
The infamous Australian Paradox sugar-and-obesity fraud was born. Here’s an ABC Investigation document that confirms some of the University of Sydney’s key problems, including that it is relying on a faulty ABS data series discontinued as unreliable after 1998-99, and then literally faked (just made up) by the FAO into the 2000s: https://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/ABC%20ACA%20Investigation.pdf
Year after year for more than a decade, Robertson has documented an ever-expanding Epic Diabetes Fraud at the University of Sydney, unearthing stunning misconduct that he describes as “the biggest medical scandal in Australia’s history”. There’s a Timeline on pp. 8-14 and a summary on pp. 17-19 of his formal Submission to Australia’s 2023-24 Parliamentary Inquiry into Diabetes: https://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/Submission-HoR-DIABETES-INQUIRY.pdf
Along the way, it turned out that not only is superstar Jennie Brand-Miller dishonest and distinguished but she’s also utterly corrupt. So too are several of her bosses, including Professor Stewart Truswell, Professor Stephen Simpson AC and current University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott AO. And don’t get me started on pharmaceutical-company “owned” shonk Professor Stephen Colagiuri: https://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/Dr-Colagiuri-corrupt-conduct.pdf
Together these “Big Four” inept and dishonest sci-careerists and their dodgy University of Sydney senior management grew, over the decades, into an extraordinarily influential menace to public health.
Truswell, for example, was the main scientific author of Canberra’s highly influential Australian Dietary Guidelines for several decades from the early 1980s, while Colagiuri was the main scientific author of Australian National Diabetes Strategy 2016-2020.
The faulty and harmful dietary advice promoted by the University of Sydney’s dishonest, aging diet-sci cabal today continues to fuel type 2 diabetes, misery and early death for over two million Australians, especially Indigenous Australians.
The University of Sydney’s heavy-hitters – who are supposed to be fixing not causing type 2 diabetes – refuse to acknowledge that their sugary high-carbohydrate diet advice – whether “Low GI” (Brand-Miller and Stephen Colagiuri), “low protein” (Stephen Simpson) or “low fat” (Stewart Truswell) is a recipe for type 2 diabetes in many Australians, caused as it is by the excessive intake of sugar and (other) carbohydrate, as has been known at the highest levels of medical science and by competent GPs for over a century: pp. 3-6 of 16 in https://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/1923-Medicine-Textbook.pdf
Why has the University refused to acknowledge the core role of excess intake of sugar and (other) carbohydrate in Australia’s growing diabetes epidemic? I do not know. But it was shocking for me to discover early in 2023 that the University’s Human Nutrition Unit (now the Charles Perkins Centre) and its (harmful) sugary high-carbohydrate diet advice for several decades was “owned” by leading global diabetes-drug seller Novo Nordisk.
Think the University of Sydney’s dishonest cabal can’t be as corrupt as I’m stating? Try these documents:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-miller-7ab727a
- https://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/PhD-Dr-John-James-Miller-UNSW.pdf
- https://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/External-Interests-Policy-USyd.pdf
- https://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/CV-Prof-Jennie-Brand-Miller-2017.pdf
It turns out that Jennie Brand-Miller (JBM), the most distinguished and influential diet-and-health “scientist” in Australia’s history, has published false and deliberately deceptive conflict-of-interest disclosures in more than 100 formal scientific documents and in over a dozen formal “peer reviewed” journals. Documents 1, 2 and 4 above show that JBM was especially good at dishonestly duping the Editors and readership of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Go Australia!
Outrageously, Jennie Brand-Miller became globally influential promoting sugary high-carbohydrate “low GI” diets – helping to fuel type 2 diabetes across Australia – while she was secretly enjoying a massive decades-long boost to her household income as her secret life/financial partner Dr John J. Miller – Novo Nordisk’s Medical Director Australasia – became Australia’s greatest-ever seller of ineffective taxpayer-subsidised drugs to victims of type 2 diabetes (caused by sugary high-carbohydrate diets).
When it comes to scientific and medical fraud and corruption that harm public health, there’s never been anything bigger in Australia.
Even superstar ABC health reporter Dr Norman Swan is in on the epic fraud, refusing to report it to the public lest adverse publicity (his distinguished “scientist” contemporaries dishonestly fuelling misery and early death!) disrupt his lucrative public-speaking business that relies on him staying sweet with misbehaving taxpayer-funded public-health clients including Diabetes Australia: https://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/Letter-to-ABC-re-NormanSwan.pdf
The evolution of this awesome unfolding scandal can be followed through the past decade and counting, by scrolling through the documents below, to #100 and beyond. Rory’s young sons in the opening scenes of the following ABC TV Lateline video have grown into adults as the authorities that are supposed to stop scientific and medical frauds wrecking public health have run for the hills and pretended there is no problem. ABC TV’s Lateline: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OwU3nOFo44s
Who in authority in Canberra ultimately is going to do the job that taxpayers pay them to do: stop the influential and harmful misconduct and misinformation promoted by a corrupt cabal of (now) old, white, affluent and impressively dishonest distinguished sci-fraudsters attached to the University of Sydney’s palatial Charles Perkins Centre?
You can contact the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, Mark Scott, on vice.chancellor@sydney.edu.au or +61 2 93515051.
Similarly, I’m contactable as listed below.
Best wishes,
Rory Robertson
ph. 0414703471
+61 414703471
strathburnstation@gmail.com
Correspondence
- 1. Critique by Robertson
- 2. Authors’ Response to Robertson
- 3. Letter 1 to Nutrients
- 4. Letters to University of Sydney
- 5. Letter to Nutrients‘ Publisher
- 6. Who’s Citing Oz Paradox ?
- 7. The dispute so far
- 8. 21/4 AFR Piece
- 9. Robertson in Public Debates
- 10. Call for Resignation Nutrients
- 11. $40,000 Oz Paradox Challenge
- 12. Sydney Uni’s serious errors & conflicts of interest
- 13. RR in 1979 (leftmost lad!)
- 14. RR’s JCU Graduation Speech (2006)
- 15. The Australian Paradox Revisited
- 16. 8 awkward questions for AWB & JBM – BANNED!
- 17. CAMPUS REVIEW (21 Aug 2012)
- 18. AUSTRALIAN PARADOX 101 SLIDESHOW
- 19. University of Sydney’s disingenuous defence of “shonky sugar study”
- 20. New nonsense-based sugar report misleads debate
- 21. University of Sydney Falsely Declares Victory
- 22. Australian Paradox goes to Canberra
- 23. RR Opening Statement in Canberra’s sugar debate
- 24. How devious ‘Big Sugar’ devastated global health
- 25. Sugar industry’s “Dead Parrot” sugar series
- 26. JBM and AWB’s The Australian Paradox website
- 27. Update on 2012 Australian Paradox scandal
- 28. Canberra toughens dietary advice against added sugar
- 29. FAO’s falsified Australian sugar series
- 30. Obesity-reversing diet
- 31. Talk to Year 3 boys at The Scots College
- 32. Decisive victory in Australian Paradox dispute
- 33. Sugar and Diabetes
- 34. RR at World Trade Center 9/11 2001
- 35. RR Fishing Grand Slam
- 36. RR calls for ban on all sugary drinks in all schools globally
- 37. The Australian Paradox paper shredded in formal journal; falsified data to the fore
- 38. Original Australian Paradox paper
- 39. Asking Prof. Jill Trewhella about research misconduct
- 40. (Draft) Retraction Notice for faulty Australian Paradox paper
- 41. Graphic evidence on Australian Paradox fraud
- 42. Letter to BioMed Central
- 43. Letter to UoS Academic Board
- 44. Sydney Uni & Sugar Australia et al launch PR campaign for sugar
- 45. Quick quiz on CPC’s research integrity
- 46. University confirms formal investigation
- 47. Time for Professor Trewhella to stand down?
- 48. AFR report on investigation
- 49. RR response to CPC correction of Oz Paradox
- 50. HONI SOIT: Sweet research turns sour
- 51. RR’s submission to Oz Paradox inquiry
- 52. Asking Sydney Uni for update on Inquiry
- 53. Sugar Myths Sydney Uni GI crew
- 54. RR draft response to Sydney University inquiry report
- 55. Letter to Academic Board re Inquiry Report
- 56. Fixing T2 diabetes in pre-insulin era, 1914-22
- 57. The case for LCHF diet to fix obesity & T2DM
- 58. Nursing Home Menu
- 59. Dr Rosemary Stanton’s misinformation
- 60. Vale Alexander Sandy Robertson
- 61. Heritage issues 48 Duxford St
- 62. Keys recklessly exonerates Sugar
- 63. 1923 Medicine Textbook
- 64. Request to USyd and Go8 for retraction
- 65. Go8 Chair insists academic freedom trumps competence integrity and public health
- 66. Letter re USyd sci fraud and Go8 defrauding taxpayers
- 67. May 2016 Letter USyd Academic Board
- 68. Mediterranean Diet in Big Fat Surprise
- 69. Peter FitzSimons Chapter 7 and Rory evidence (Christmas 2016 update)
- 70. USyd Initial Inquiry Report
- 71. Five year Australian Paradox Update 2017
- 72. New USyd Australian Paradox paper 2017
- 73. USyd Academic Board Letter May 2017
- 74. USyd Governance scandal
- 75. Letters re USyd VC Spence’s Goverance Crisis
- 76. Curing type 2 diabetes
- 77. Letter to Health Dept re T2 Diabetes
- 78. Expanded Letter to Aust Govt re T2D mistreatment
- 79. 2017 ANU PhD on Research Silencing
- 80. USyd Misconduct in ANU PhD
- 81. Letter to Academic Board re USyd misconduct in ANU PhD
- 82. The case for LCHF diet to fix obesity & T2DM
- 83. Letter to USyd Academic Board re scientists’ academic fraud
- 84. Australia’s Sugar Tax Debate
- 85. Letter Piers Akerman and Australian Paradox
- 86. ABC Investigation into Australian Paradox
- 87. Letter re confirmation of fake data
- 88. Prof JBM at Food4Thought18 conference
- 89. Letter to Cell Metabolism Journal
- 90. USyd mouse-diet response to RR
- 91. Letters to USyd Cell Metabolism
- 92. Letter to ACCC re USyd deceptions
- 93. RR Submission to USyd Inquiry 2019
- 94. Supplementary Submission USyd Inquiry 2019
- 95. Letter to USyd Academic Board Sep 2019
- 96. LCHF Brukner 2014
- 97. Letter to ABC Nov 2019
- 98. USyd Initial inquiry 2014 Cell Metabolism paper
- 99. RR response to Initial Inquiry-2020
- 100. RR outcome letter-7 May 2020
- 101. Letter from NHMRC ARIC June 2020
- 102. RR Submission NHMRC review 2020
- 103. ABC A and CA Investigation
- 104. RR Letter to UCL December 2020
- 105. RR Letter to UCL plus NHMRC December 2020
- 106. RR NHMRC letter March 2021
- 107. NHMRC CEO Letter April 2021
- 108. Truswell on Origins of Diet Guidelines
- 109. RRLetter CEO NHMRC May 2021
- 110. RR Letter USyd Academic Board June 2021
- 111. RR Letter Aust Parliament June 2021
- 112. RR Letter to new USyd VC Scott July 2021
- 113. Colagiuri Misconduct Diabetes 2022
- 114. Letter to Canberra re Reversing T2D Epidemic
- 115. Letter to Health Minister and Secretary Feb 2023
- 116. Letter to Mr Robertson exonerating Colagiuri May 2023
- 117. Letter to University of Sydney Chancellor Belinda Hutchinson, AC, June 2023
- 118. Letter to ABC re Norman Swan, July 2023
- 119. Gary Taubes Sugar and GI
- 120. Submission HoR DIABETES INQUIRY 2023
- 121. Dr Colagiuri of Sydney Uni’s Latest Corrupt Conduct
- 122. PhD Dr John James Miller
- 123. Professor Jennie Brand-Miller
- 124. External Interests Policy Sydney University
- 125. ABC ACA Investigation Report
- 126. Elaine Lucas (Robertson)
- 127. RR additions to JBM Wiki pages
- 128. Letter to USyd. Chancellor David Thodey.
- 129.USyd. Chancellor David Thodey Replies.
- 130.Resignation of dishonest AAoS President Chennupati Jagadish