Simon Singh vs. the chiropractors: today in court
Noted British science writer Simon Singh was in the High Court today for an Appeal Hearing, the latest stage of his long-running legal battle with the British Chiropractic Association (BCA). The...
View ArticleStop Press: BCA drop case against Simon Singh
Breaking news from the internet: there are strong signs that the British Chiropractic Association have dropped their long-running libel case against Simon Singh: see here from the barristers’ chambers...
View ArticleQuantum homeopathic flapdoodle
I had wanted to post something for World Homeopathy Awareness Week (WHAW), which ended a few days ago. However, I have been hampered by the fact that, whenever I think about writing anything more about...
View ArticleJust when I thought I was out…
In case you’re wondering where I’ve been (and I’m sure no-one was): apart from grading a few essays, and servicing my growing Twitter addiction, I have done what I regularly swear I won’t and got...
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It’s a conspiracy – and you’re ALL in on it
An amusing sequel (in a masochistic and depressing kind of way) to my earlier post detailing how I got involved in one of those fruitless anti-vaccine debates over at a thread on the Guardian’s...
View ArticleSettling in
Sorry, another “place-holder” post, end of teaching semester and pre-Xmas “Help I still haven’t done XYZ!” kind of thing, all a bit frantic, hopefully some new content coming…. I’ve just penned an...
View ArticleFrankly dilutional
In which I have the strong feeling that it’s Déjà vu all over again. Ah, me. Homeopathy. * Sigh * Like most scientists who write about alternative medicine and pseudoscience, I am heartily sick of...
View ArticleMore peer review. Zzzzzz.
In which, late as ever, I remember to say something about peer review. There has been a bit of a flurry of commenting about peer review around OT just recently, with both RPG and Girl, Interrupting...
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Checking homeopathy – fat chance
In which I get distracted. And even more geeky. (You’ll see why – keep reading.) I am SO, SO BORED with homeopathy. Really. I would rather write about anything, practically. Like chess. Or films...
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Happy Birthday DC
It is a pleasure to wish a Happy Birthday today to my friend Professor David Colquhoun, who as he reaches the palindromic age of 77 is still fighting the various fights for good science – and reality...
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