Subject: blogger inquiry

From: Peter Heimlich <peter.heimlich@gmail.com>

Date: 11/13/2015 4:27 PM
To: monica.lee@huffingtonpost.com
CC: Michael Calderone <michael.calderone@huffingtonpost.com>, David Yaffe-Bellany <david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu>, sterling jones
<sterlingjones1989@aol.com>

Dear Ms. Lee:

I'd appreciate your help with a couple of quick questions regarding this November 4, 2015 Yale Daily News story, Katz faces criticism for
book review by David Yaffe-Bellany http://tinyurl.com/qz3nh6s about David L. Katz MD using his January 17, 2014 and February 18,
2014 Huffington Post columns to hype a novel he'd written using a pseudonym without informing readers that he was the author.

The article stated, "Monica Lee, a communications officer for The Huffington Post, did not return numerous requests for comment," so I
asked Mr. Yaffe-Bellany for your contact information. He only had your phone number, (917)575-2630, so I phoned you about a week
ago and left a message. I never received a reply either. At the time, I assumed you might be a low-level employee giving us the brush-off,
but per your LinkedIn, I just learned that you appear to be in charge of communications at the Huffington Post: https://www.linkedin.com
/in/monica-lee-8b1b1b78 Is that accurate?

In any event, here are my questions.

This was appended to Dr. Katz's February 18, 2014 column: http://tinyurl.com/po42t9c

However, his January 17, 2014 column was not updated: http://tinyurl.com/qauw25g In a recent Q&A (on which I copied Huffington
Post senior media reporter Michael Calderone -- please see below my signature), I asked if Dr. Katz if he thought that column should also
be appended and he replied it was "certainly fine with me."

1) Since Dr. Katz gave the green light, does the Huffington Post intend to also append that column? If so, approximately when?

2) I asked Dr. Katz for the name(s) of the editor(s) responsible for the two columns and for the name of his current editor. Despite
multiple inquiries, I never received a reply. What are those names, please?

Thanks for your time/consideration and I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

Peter M. Heimlich
Atlanta
ph: (208)474-7283
website: http://medfraud.info
blog: http://the-sidebar.com
e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com

cc: Michael Calderone, David Yaffe-Bellany, Dean Sterling Jones (blogger at Shooting the Messenger: http://tinyurl.com/ogemc5s )

On 11/7/2015 11:24 AM, Peter Heimlich wrote:

David,
I never received a reply from you to my 10/25 or 10/27 e-mails. If you intend to reply, would you please get back to me by end of the
day Tuesday, 11/10? I hate going with "failed to respond to multiple inquiries," so I hope to receive your answers to any or all of the
three questions highlighted in red -- please see below. Also, based on my experience it's easier to get information from the CIA than the
Huffington Post (smile). If nothing else would you please answer this one?

2. Who was your editor at the Huffington Post at the time? Who's your current editor at the HuffPo?

Also, if you want to comment on this 11/4 Yale Daily News story, please feel free: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/11/04/katz-
faces-criticism-for-book-review/ FYI, that story included only part of my on-the-record response to the reporter's inquiry. Here's my
complete comment:

I can assure Dr. Katz that I'm not part of any cabal, conspiracy, or smear campaign against him. I'm an unpaid, independent
blogger who has tagged dozens of shill book reviews on Amazon. That's what led me to his review of reVision and his two
Huffington Post columns in which he lavishly praised the novel without informing readers that he wrote it. Instead of
trying to change the subject, he should man up and explain what happened.

Cheers and hope to hear from you by Tuesday. Per my previous e-mails, once I get this story out of the way, I'd like to take a closer
look at the allegations you raised in your 10/24 column that you sent me: http://tinyurl.com/q3tr8l7

-- Peter

Peter M. Heimlich
Atlanta
ph: (208)474-7283
website: http://medfraud.info
blog: http://the-sidebar.com
e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com

On 10/27/2015 4:36 PM, Peter Heimlich wrote:

David,

Just a friendly nudge. If you can get back to me in the next couple of days with answers to my three unanswered questions, that
would be greatly appreciated. If you need more time, just ask and I'll do my best to accommodate. (I prefer thoroughness and
accuracy over haste.)

Per my previous e-mail, after I wrap up this and a couple other unrelated items I'm reporting, I'd be interested in taking a closer look
at the allegations you raise in the column you sent me.

Cheers and hope to hear from you so I can get this off my desk -- Peter

On 10/25/2015 5:28 PM, Peter Heimlich wrote:

David,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

>You would best understand that if you read (reVision)...

I have a copy, but it's rough sledding for me, perhaps because I'm not a fantasy fiction buff. But I'll give it another try. In any
event, I'd welcome your answers to these quick questions (slightly modified from my first e-mail).

1. When your January 17 and February 18, 2014 Huffington Post columns that included the recommendations for reVision
were published, were you planning to reveal your identity to readers on April 1? If so, were any HuffPo employees aware
of the plan?

2. Who was your editor at the Huffington Post at the time? Who's your current editor at the HuffPo?

I'd also appreciate your answer to one more quick question.

6. I've been corresponding with Amazon.com regarding your five-star review of reVision which failed to disclose that you
wrote the book: http://tinyurl.com/nwazvym Do you think the review should be deleted or amended to identify you as the
author?
Anything else relevant you'd like to add? Please feel free.

>(I) have incurred varying harassment for months...

Sounds like a story I might want to pursue. After I finish the reVision story and a couple of other projects, I'll like to learn more
from you. Until then, please feel free to send me more information.

Thanks and looking forward to your reply.

Cheers, Peter

Peter M. Heimlich
Atlanta
ph: (208)474-7283
website: http://medfraud.info
blog: http://the-sidebar.com
e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com

On 10/25/2015 4:35 PM, Dr. David L. Katz wrote:

Peter- apologies if I overlooked your prior missive; my inbox is a busy place.

This matter recently came to my attention, and when I looked into it myself, I saw it originated in social media with those intent
on discrediting the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Report. I have long been defending that report (that's my day
job), and have incurred varying harassment for months for my pains, as have all others who have done likewise. I have
addressed this myself in my most recent column: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/national-nutrition-policy-imperiled-bullies-
david-l-katz-md-mph?trk=mp-reader-card

Regarding reVision, it is NOT my day job, and unlike my many books on matters medical, it was self-published. I quickly
realized that any hopes the publisher (iUniverse) would make anyone aware of it were misplaced. I could, easily and most
effectively, have said to my large audience of followers: "I have written an epic, fiction novel and am thrilled about it; I think
it's the best thing I've ever written- please check it out and tell me what you think!" I did just that when Disease Proof was
published, to very good effect.

However, preserving the separation between the 'author' of reVision and me was truer to the integrity of the tale. (You would
best understand that if you read it, but feel free to take it at face value.)

I attempted that tack, but it proved naive and awkward- so I disclosed the connection. The opinions I expressed were entirely
honest, including references to many literary connections. Those very sources figure in the book as both inspiration, and at
times, allusion or direct reference. Some of the same comparisons were made in a Kirkus review which, of course, was entirely
independent of me.

Your #4: certainly fine with me, but frankly, probably of no practical importance to anyone. Those who follow me have now
been told more than once that I wrote reVision, and those who don't follow me are very unlikely to be interested in that nearly
2-year-old blog with an esoteric title.

Your #5: probably, yellowing and rather mouse-chewed in my parents' attic. That was in 1984, so I don't know that a Google
search will help much. The hospital doubtless has records of the surgery, perhaps on microfiche; it was in Miramas, France.
There is also an attorney in NY who was my travel companion at the time, but I have no inclination to trouble her about this
without some clarification about why I should. With all due respect, the same goes for looking through boxes in an attic. For
what it's worth, and because it is more expedient, find attached a 'selfie' of the surgical scar of the juncture between my left
thumb and index finger, where the knife wound was sustained.

All best,
DK
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Peter Heimlich <peter.heimlich@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dr. Katz,

I haven't received your reply to the three questions I e-mailed you on October 2 (copied below my signature). What's the
status of my inquiry, please?

Also, I have a couple more quick questions

Via your January 17, 2014 Huffington Post column, Do We Need to Kill Our Heroes?

And so it was I was delighted to find just such reflections in my new favorite book, reVision, which offers --
perhaps as the title is intended to suggest -- other ways of seeing things. In this epic novel, purportedly the first
book in a trilogy, a character laments: "Across all the ages, I have mourned the ill-timed loss of Hector. Others
like him, too -- both better known, and less. What good was ever served by Hector dying then, and there?"

The character continues, extending the lamentation to the Odyssey, the second of Homer's classic works, making
reference to Odysseus' notoriously long and wayward journey home: "If Odysseus had been half so clever as
those imbeciles accredited, he would have devised some means to spare such worthy men as Priam and Hector,
and not allied his talents to deceit, and demise. That detour he suffered was insufficient penance -- and Penelope
bore the fuller brunt of it in any case." And then, finally: "Oh, I decry these primitive cultures whose very
dreams are girdled by such narrow notions of glory that life -- life itself! -- is strangled out of them."

For more such musings, and the epic adventure in which they figure, I refer you to reVision. Here, my inclination
is merely to append: Amen!

4. The column doesn't disclose to readers that you wrote reVision. Do you think it should be appended like To See By
Common Light, your February 18, 2014 column which also praised the book?

5. I'm curious to learn more about the dramatic knife attack against you on the train in France which you related in Do We
Need to Kill Our Heroes? You wrote that the assault was widely covered in the French press. Do you have any clippings you
can send me?

Thanks for your continued attention and I look forward to your reply.

Cheers,

Peter M. Heimlich
Atlanta
ph: (208)474-7283
website: http://medfraud.info
blog: http://the-sidebar.com
e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com

cc: Michael Calderone

On 10/2/2015 4:48 PM, Peter Heimlich wrote:

Dear Dr. Katz,

I'm reporting a follow-up to this item I blogged two days ago and I'd welcome your answers to a few quick questions:
http://www.the-sidebar.com/2015/09/katz-out-of-bag-did-prominent-yale.html

Per my previous item, your February 18, 2014 Huffington Post column lavishly praised the novel reVision: Lore of the
Corners Trilogy, Book 1, published by IUniverse. On April 1, 2014, about six weeks later, your column was appended to
identify you as the author of the book.

According to this April 1, 2014 tweet and your April 4, 2014 blog post, I am Samhu Iyyam, not disclosing to Huffington
Post readers that you wrote reVision was an April Fool's prank:
1. When your column was originally published, were you planning to reveal your identity to readers on April 1? If so, were
any Huffington Post employees aware of the plan?

2. Who was your editor at the Huffington Post at the time?

3. Do you wish to comment re: your February 16, 2014 review of reVision on your book's Amazon.com page? If so, please
feel free to elaborate.

Anything else you wish to add? Please feel free.

Thanks for your time/consideration and I look forward to your reply, preferably by next Friday, October 9. If you need
more time, please advise and I'll do my best to accommodate.

I may follow-up with your Huffington Post colleague, Michael Calderone, so I'm looping him in.

Cheers,

Peter M. Heimlich
Atlanta
ph: (208)474-7283
website: http://medfraud.info
blog: http://the-sidebar.com
e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com
 cc: Michael Calderone

--

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP

Director, Yale University Prevention Research Center

Griffin Hospital

President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Founder, The True Health Coalition

Follow at: LinkedIN; Twitter; Facebook

Read at: INfluencer Blog; Huffington Post; US News & World Report; About.com
Subject: blogger inquiry
From: Peter Heimlich <peter.heimlich@gmail.com>
Date: 11/16/2015 8:19 PM
To: Victor.Brand@huffingtonpost.com

Dear Mr. Brand,

I'm reporting a journalism ethics story about a Huffington Post columnist, David L. Katz MD, and I'm
apparently getting stonewalled by your company's Communications Vice President Monica Lee.

Per this e-mail I sent her on November 13 (to which I haven't received a reply), she also failed to respond to
recent multiple related inquiries from a Yale Daily News reporter, and she failed to return a voice message I
left her a couple of weeks ago: http://tinyurl.com/ptkccnw Therefore I have my doubts that she intends to
respond to my e-mail.

Is this your bailiwick as Standards Editor? If so, I'd appreciate your help getting answers to the questions I
submitted to Ms. Lee.

If this isn't your ken, would you please direct me to another editorial staffer who can answer my questions?
(Please feel free to share this e-mail.)

Big thanks for your time/consideration and I look forward to your reply.

Cheers, Peter

Peter M. Heimlich
Atlanta
ph: (208)474-7283
website: http://medfraud.info
blog: http://the-sidebar.com
e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com

PMH: I didn't receive a reply, so I sent an 11/16/2015 8:19 PM follow-up e-mail, to which I received:

Subject: Re: blogger inquiry -- 2nd request, pls advise

From: Victor Brand <victor.brand@huffingtonpost.com>
Date: 11/18/2015 11:51 AM
To: Peter Heimlich <peter.heimlich@gmail.com>

Hello Mr. Heimlich,

I'm informed that you were inquiring after this post, which has been removed upon further review by
our blog team:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/healthy-living-news_b_4796116.html

We would direct you to the note now in that space, and do not have anything further to add.

Thanks for your inquiry.

Victor Brand
Standards Editor
The Huffington Post
Subject: Re: blogger inquiry -- 2nd request, pls advise
From: Peter Heimlich <peter.heimlich@gmail.com>
Date: 11/18/2015 12:14 PM
To: Victor Brand <victor.brand@huffingtonpost.com>
CC: Michael Calderone <michael.calderone@huffingtonpost.com>

Hello Mr. Brand,

Thanks for your e-mail and for the information.

As it happens, per this 2013 item I blogged, this is the second situation in which a problematic Huffington
Post story has been deleted after I brought the matter to the attention of editors: http://www.the-
sidebar.com/2013/07/huffington-post-scrubs-boston-area.html

I sincerely appreciate your publication's ongoing attention to my inquiries and if I can ever be of help,
please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Cheers, Peter

Peter M. Heimlich
Atlanta
ph: (208)474-7283
website: http://medfraud.info
blog: http://the-sidebar.com
e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com