Exchange between Dr. Walsh and Mr. Cohen in which Mr. Cohen accepts Dr. Walsh's challenge to debate.

Stephen Walsh comments:

The presentation originally referred to was to be held at King's
College London but was cancelled as their nutrition professors
felt Robert did not have the credibility to warrant a debate.

I spoke to Robert before the regent's College meeting reminding him of our
correspondence re a debate and he reaffirmed his willingness to debate me.

Here is the message sent by Dr. Walsh to members of the UK Vegan Society and copied to Robert Cohen:

13-March-2001

I hope I get the chance to attend this presentation. I regard Robert
Cohen's work as scientifically inaccurate and highly biased. For example,
his claim that juvenile (insulin deficient due to pancreas damage) diabetes
can be cured by eliminating milk from the diet is completely unfounded. Milk
may well play a partial role in the development of juvenile diabetes, but
that is a very different matter. His claims on milk and osteoporosis are
excessive and based on a selective reading of the literature. He places too
much emphasis on recent results on IGF and cancer where the dietary
determinants of the critical IGF-1/IGFBP3 ratio are still largely unknown.
Milk does raise IGF-1, probably due to high protein content rather than
IGF-1 content of the milk, but the effect of milk on the IGF-1/IGFBP3 ratio
is to my knowledge undetermined and the degree of IGF-1 elevation observed
due to increased milk consumption would have a modest impact on cancer risk
even if IGFBP-3 remained constant rather than rising as would be expected
from its positive correlation with IGF-1.

I would not wish the Vegan Society to be seen as supporting or endorsing
his claims and look forward to the opportunity to debate them.

best wishes,

Stephen

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13-March-2001 (Robert Cohen's response to Stephen Walsh's challenge to debate)

stephen walsh WROTE:

I hope I get the chance to attend this presentation. I regard Robert
Cohen's work as scientifically inaccurate and highly biassed.
I would not wish the Vegan Society to be seen as supporting or endorsing
his claims and look forward to the opportunity to debate them.

Dear Stephan,

I hope that you are able to attend too, and
look forward to debating you. ;>)
An a matter of fact, why not get ten of
your best doubters, doctors, and scientists
to debate me, ten against one?
Perhaps we can put it all on film.
We'll have a jolly good time!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

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