{"id":3725,"date":"2025-07-15T06:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/steven-bartlett-sharing-harmful-health-misinformation-in-diary-of-ceo-podcast-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:56:43","slug":"steven-bartlett-sharing-harmful-health-misinformation-in-diary-of-ceo-podcast-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/steven-bartlett-sharing-harmful-health-misinformation-in-diary-of-ceo-podcast-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XV_B96fAzKs?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett is amplifying harmful health misinformation on his number-one ranked podcast, a BBC investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>Recent claims from guests &#8211; including that cancer can be treated by following a keto diet, rather than proven treatments &#8211; were allowed by the Dragons&#8217; Den star with little or no challenge. Experts have told us failing to question these disproven claims is dangerous because it creates a distrust of conventional medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In an analysis of 15 health-related podcast episodes, BBC World Service found each contained an average of 14 harmful health claims that went against extensive scientific evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Flight Studio &#8211; the podcast production company owned by Mr Bartlett &#8211; said guests were offered &#8220;freedom of expression&#8221; and were &#8220;thoroughly researched&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XV_B96fAzKs\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett is amplifying harmful health misinformation on his number-one ranked podcast, a BBC investigation has found. Recent claims from guests &#8211; including that cancer can be treated by following a keto diet, rather than proven treatments &#8211; were allowed by the Dragons&#8217; Den star with little or no challenge. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[356,15,169,1748,565,368,1749,354,1750,496,162],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-india-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-news","tag-world","tag-world-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}