Aggregating the best of the blogs on science and pseudoscience
California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS or California DDS) has deemed that “family members of certain people are “health care ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
15 years ago I went online to find out information about autism. Like many parents, I didn’t know much before ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
Xavier Becerra, the news is reporting that you will be nominated to be the new head of the Department of ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
This is a transcript of the talk that I gave to the RIOT science club on 1st October 2020. The ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
Let’s put this another way. Masks don’t work if you wear them “all the time” but not when you are ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
Over the past four years many extremist and conspiracy theorist groups have been connecting and even forming alliances. The pandemic ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
You took credit for it, but it is meaningless if it isn’t implemented. You are short changing people with disabilities. ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
Biden is a stutterer. He’s learned how to communicate clearly but that involves focus. There’s a great story in The ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
There’s a reason why Trump isn’t talking GDP growth these days. It’s because he failed by that measure. Four years ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
I still can not fathom how parents of disabled kids, of autistic kids, would support Trump. But this election, I’m ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
There is/was a blog called “autism investigated”. If you are unaware of it, consider yourself lucky. It is/was a cesspool. ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
When people claim that shelter in place orders didn’t save people, they are just wrong. When people say we didn’t ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
The U.S. has a committee called the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. It’s mandated by law, a law that has been ...(read more)
by Sullivan (Matt Carey)
I am going to set out my current views about the transgender problem. It’s something that has caused a lot of ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
There will soon be an election for the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. I support Dr ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
During the Black Lives Matter demonstrations on Sunday 7th June, the statue of Edward Colston was pulled down and dumped ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
This example illustrates just how fast exponential growth is. It was proposed on twitter by Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) who attributes ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
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The inquiry into UCL’s historical role in eugenics was set up a year ago. Its report was delivered ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
Excitingly, a new science forum Scrutable is here. There’s a SCEINCE forum (officially known as the Nerd Lab) for discussion ...(read more)
by jdc325
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On Sunday 23 September, we recorded an interview with Rosi Sexton. Ever since I got to ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
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If you are not a pharmacologist or physiologist, you may never have heard of Bernard Ginsborg. I first ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
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On Monday evening (8th January 2018), I got an email from Ben van der Merwe, a UCL student ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
Sorry not to be in regular blogging mode at the moment. Here’s a video of our evidence session to parliament, ...(read more)
by Ben Goldacre
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Today we went to see the film Goodbye Christopher Robin. It was very good. I, like most ...(read more)
by David Colquhoun
This post arose from a discussion on Twitter about a recently-published randomised trial. Twitter isn’t the best forum for debate ...(read more)
by Simon Gates
People often speak and write about values of treatment effects outside their confidence intervals as being “excluded.” For example; “the ...(read more)
by Simon Gates
I don't want to start obsessing about sample size calculations, because most of the time they're pretty pointless and irrelevant, ...(read more)
by Simon Gates
I found a paper in a clinical journal about confidence intervals. I’m not going to give the reference, but it ...(read more)
by Simon Gates
There is a fashion for producing eye-catching infographics of trial results. This is a good thing in some ways, because ...(read more)
by Simon Gates
Here’s a paper, and associated website, that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug ...(read more)
by Ben Goldacre