In the recent series of Strictly Come Dancing, the retired political correspondent John Sergeant performed spectacularly well. The judges had mistaken the show for a talent contest, rather than the test of popularity. Sergeant consistently hammered the better dancers in the contest in terms of the public vote, despite lacking any apparent dancing skills beyond [...]
As well as damaging education, including throwing acid at schoolgirls, the Taliban are repeating the claim of Nigerian religious leaders that Polio vaccine is designed to reduce fertility.
The militants [Taliban] have also prohibited immunisation for children against polio – claiming that the UN-sponsored vaccination drive is aimed at causing sexual impotence – causing a sharp [...]
Ian Hislop was interviewed by Radio 5 Live’s Simon Mayo on Friday. In a discussion about the Eye’s campaigning journalism Mayo brought up the Eye’s coverage of MMR vaccine. The Eye published a special edition about MMR in May of 2002 subtitled “The story so far: a comprehensive review of the MMR vaccination/autism controversy”. It [...]
The Washington Post reports on an FDA decision on long-acting beta agonists (LABAs) in asthma:
The risks of two widely used asthma drugs outweigh their benefits for both children and adults, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said Thursday.
The health panel targeted GlaxoSmithKline’s Serevent [salmeterol] and Foradil [formoterol], made jointly by Novartis AG and [...]
Wakefield’s original 1998 paper, which led to the health scare over MMR vaccine driven by the UK media, was eventually retracted by ten of his co-authors. Another paper published by Wakefield is expected to be retracted by some important co-authors.
In 2002, Wakefield published a paper which is widely known as the O’Leary paper. The conclusion [...]
