nandixon
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I did a little googling on this guy, Stephen Chaney (aka Steve Chaney), because his video presentation contains too many distortions and it's not what you would expect to hear from an unbiased scientist researcher, at least in my opinion as someone formerly in a similar field.He's clearly very biased in his beliefs. I only could stomach watching about the first third of the video (plus the part at 19:20), because I felt like I was listening to a spokesperson for the folic acid lobby.
On the one hand he does appear to be a (retired?) Professor of Biochemistry, but on the other I found a number of websites containing blog pieces that he has written over the years, that appear to be "reviews" especially focusing on the merits of folic acid. At the end of these blogs, below where he signs off, he often does a "PS" or similar with a link to a folic acid-containing product(s).
A particularly telling example, perhaps, is found in a blog from 2011 where the blog host wrote:
[Bold added]Below is an article written by Dr Steve Chaney, who is a high level sales leader in our field, remarkable published researcher and professor in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina’s Medical School.
So it would seem that he receives some sort of product endorsement fee or royalty for his postings, and if this is true he obviously has a serious conflict of interest in presenting anything that has the appearance of being an objective analysis with respect to folic acid.
I didn't spend much time on this, so if anyone has an interest they might double-check the situation.