Young Scientist of the year?
Hi folks, Well summer is nearly over and the blog is about to start up again for the new academic year. We should be back in full-swing in September. In the meantime I came across this amazing story...
View ArticleHysteria; a case of bad science
Hi folks, I actually had my letter of complaint about the bias nature of the recent article on therapeutic touch in Canadian Nurse (see post last month) published in their letters column, and boy did I...
View ArticleSavita Halappanavar: why we need science based health policies
Sadly last week was not a good week for women’s reproductive rights. Savita Happenavar died in Ireland though what we be regarded as medical negligence in many countries. Cases of medical malpractice...
View ArticleThe Great Divide; it hasn’t gone away it seems
My thoughts for this weeks post were sparked by a couple of recent events. 1) Ben Goldacre’s suggestions that we need better “evidence-based education” and 2) a friend’s visit to an immunologist to...
View ArticleBernie’s Philosophy of Science eBook is Alive!
Apologies for the lack of activity on the site for the last few weeks, but I had been putting the final touches to my ebook and Roger is off on his travels. Anyhow, the ebook is published at last and …...
View ArticleFishbarrel: making complaints about unscrupulous practice easier
Last month I posted on issues with absolute thinking and the rise of absolutist thinking amongst complementary and alternative medicine practitioners (as opposed to those who claim that their practices...
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