As social media spats go, it was all rather unexpected – and unseemly – for a group of prominent medics.
At the centre of the storm was top health scientist Professor Tim Spector and his brief comments on a new study which suggested, in lab mice at least, Vitamin D deficiency could increase the risk of cancer returning.
Prof Spector, a genetic epidemiologist at King’s College London and the founder of the ZOE nutrition app, wrote on X, formerly Twitter,