Gillian McKeith has made the classic internet mistake of making a post online, tried to delete it then mounting a cover-up plan to make out she had nothing to do with it. The former presenter of You Are What You Eat has been criticised for years in the UK over claims that her doctorate is not legitimate. Her main enemy is Bad Science author Ben Goodacre, who managed to get the same doctorate that McKeith has for his dead cat. On Twitter, McKeith responded to a user who was looking forward to reading a chapter about her in Bad Science, and called Goodacre an ass and a liar.
The tweets were soon removed when he found out and started asking questions about McKeith. Tweets then started appearing in the third person, and then this gem.
Twitter is full of Goldacre fans and clever detectives who then found links to the twitter from her official website, so of course it was real. The links were then removed, but still appeared in the source code.
Lessons to be learned – be careful what you post about people online as deletion is very difficult in the world of screengrabbing.
