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Monthly Archives: August 2007

May you never – John Martyn

28-Aug-07
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but…

27-Aug-07

26h’s put down of Robert Fisk’s recent attempt to examine the truth behind 911 is a must read.
Here’s a quick list to test your sanity, agreement with any of which should make you slap yourself about the face a bit until you start to talk sense:
1. AIDS is not caused by HIV.
2. Diana did not [...]

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Mountain

26-Aug-07

The BBC’s Mountain Programme is going to Snowdonian tonight at 9pm. I hear Griff Rhys Jones is going to do Crib Goch and some slate climbing.
The last climb I did on slate, many years ago it has to be said, was Goose Creatures. It has tiny holds. At that point I could do two finger [...]

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Nurse prescribing

23-Aug-07

The Guardian reports on concerns about nurse prescribing, although any concerns may extend to other non-medical prescribers, and the editor of Pulse magazine is stated as saying:
“The whole nurse prescribing scheme has been rushed through with only the bare minimum of piloting and evaluation, and it won’t be until academics start analysing the rates of [...]

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Dawkins on health

23-Aug-07

Here’s the full Richard Dawkins Enemies of Reason Part II on quack health treatments:

Link to full Part I here.

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Richard Dawkins

15-Aug-07

Here’s Richard Dawkins talking about conspiracy theories, from those about 911 to the conspiracy theory about MMR vaccine, at the concluding part of the first episode of Enemies of Reason. Or rather he was here until the video clip was removed for copyright reasons. The full video is here, the conspiracy theory bit is at [...]

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Better love than chemicals

13-Aug-07

Richard Smith, former BMJ editor and son of a mother with Alzheimer’s disease, explaining why he is pleased with the recent court case supporting NICE:
Why am I not “furious” like the campaigners I saw on television last night about Nice’s decision? One reason is that the drugs wouldn’t make much difference to my mother [...]

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The Unlightenment

13-Aug-07

Charlie Booker:
Welcome to a dangerous new era – the Unlightenment – in which centuries of rational thought are overturned by idiots. Superstitious idiots. They’re everywhere – reading horoscopes, buying homeopathic remedies, consulting psychics, babbling about “chakras” and “healing energies”, praying to imaginary gods, and rejecting science in favour of soft-headed bunkum. But instead of slapping [...]

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In Press

11-Aug-07

An article:
Cox AR, Kirkham H. A Case Study of a Graphical Misrepresentation: Drawing the Wrong Conclusions about the Measles, Mumps and Rubella Virus Vaccine. Drug Safety 2007; 30(10): pages numbers to follow.
and a book chapter:
Layton D, Cox A. Pharmacovigilance. In: Bond C editor. Using Medicines Information. Oxford, Radcliffe Publishing 2007. p. 141-168.

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