In an editorial full of fail in the Mail about the Wakefield judgment, two point stands out for me. The first is an amazing lack of knowledge about the public money spent on the Wakefield hoax:
And the parents? They were denied the legal aid (available to every Tom, Dick and terrorist [they really are beyond [...]
The Independent asked at the start of the GMC investigation into Andrew Wakefield the following question:
Are we wrong to detect the distant whirr of the same spin spin machine that so recently set about destroying the reputations of David Kelly, Andrew Gilligan and others?
Independent leader from February 24th 2004
This week they have finally come to [...]
Apart from people who have boosted Andrew Wakefield’s discredited and dishonest wild theories about MMR vaccine over the years (Lucy Johnston, Melanie Phillips, Fiona Phillips et al), one journalist will forever be associated with Wakefield: Brian Deer.
Brian Deer is no shill for the pharmaceutical industry. Back in the 90s he tackled the harms of Septrin [...]
Today 1023 held their mass overdose event, using homeopathic preparations, outside Boots the Chemists. I’ve already detailed my views on this with regard to the wider profession of pharmacy – it is not a problem only associated with Boots. However, the BBC report today has some two (amongst other) poor defenses of the sale of [...]
Last year, I supported spoke in favour of a motion by a colleague, Dr Angela Alexander, to make the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) issue a position paper suggesting homeopathy does not fit within the professional healthcare role of the pharmacist.
Motion
It is the opinion of this meeting that the Society should produce a [...]
I haven’t posted here for nearly three months, so hello. I’ve recently obtained a full-time lecturer post at Aston University, so the blog has been a low-priority. However, it seems a shame for the blog to die, since it will be seven years old in February.
One of the issues this blog has followed fairly closely [...]