Magnets and the Freedom of Information Act 2000
In the discussion of magnets on the Badscience site, a Michael King says that 4ulcercare will be included in Part IX of the Drug Tariff because it meets the criteria of the Prescription Pricing...
View ArticleUnfreedom of Information at DoH
Well this beats everything. Following the advice of the PPA, I re-submitted my request under the Freedom of Information Act to the Department of Health (DoH), which is where the PPA claimed to to have...
View ArticleFish oil and Prof. Puri
A TV company funded a rather uninformative study of omega-3 fish oil by Prof Basant Puri if Imperial College and the Hammersmith Hospital. The media reports on the study were totally misleading It was...
View ArticleWestminster’s response
The day after “Science degrees without the Science“ appeared in Nature, the University of Westminster issued a statement . In my view, their statement provides the strongest grounds so far to believe...
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THES, and Westminster: round two
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) published another bash at BSc degrees in anti-science. This one was accompanied by a defence from Brian Isbell, head of the department of complementary...
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Homeopathic Hospital in trouble
Twenty-five hospitals from London and southern and eastern England have already either stopped sending any patients to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital or agreed to fund only a handful A campaign...
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Red clover, herbal spin and vested interests
The Health Supplements Information Service (HSIS) is a spin organisation for the supplements industry. I came across them when they attempted to discredit a report that supplements could actually...
View ArticleAssessment metrics are bad science
Papers sent to me from Imperial College revealed abuse of crude an ineffective metrics for assessment of the performance of staff. These metrics are demonstrably bad science as well as inhuman. The...
View ArticleThe fallout from DC’s de-excommunication
One of the effects of this affair has been the posting of some critical examinations of some of the writings of Dr Ann Walker. I make no comment. The links are here. This item appeared originally on...
View ArticleHolford’s CV: yet more
Curiouser and curiouser. Not only have we the curious case of Dr Marks, but Holford’s CV on his web site, and as submitted to the University of Tesside, has alway said that his degree from the...
View ArticleUniversity abandons homeopathy “degree”
Jump to follow-up The first major victory in the battle for the integrity of universities seems to have been won. This email was sent by Kate Chatfield who is module leader for the “BSc” in homeopathic...
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The gripes of Rath
Jump to follow-up Today is a good day for anyone who deplores dangerous confidence tricksters. In particular it is a good day for Ben Goldacre, and for the Guardian which defended him at potentially...
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Another worthless validation: the University of Wales and nutritional therapy
Jump to follow-up It seems that validation committees often don’t look beyond the official documents. As a result, the validations may not be worth the paper they are written on. Try this one. One of...
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Teaching bad science to children: OfQual and Edexcel are to blame
Jump to follow-up It’s hard enough to communicate basic ideas about how to assess evidence to adults without having the effort hindered by schools. The teaching of quackery to 16 year-olds has been...
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Information commissioner rules that university must release teaching materials
On 24 July 2006, I sent a request to the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) I asked to see the teaching materials that were used on their BSc...
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