Letting Off Steam
Scare Story Supported by Dodgy Reasoning
I took exception to some dodgy reasoning in the letters page of the 12 October Evening Standard. I emailed a ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Aggregating the best of the blogs on science and pseudoscience
I took exception to some dodgy reasoning in the letters page of the 12 October Evening Standard. I emailed a ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
This is just a short post to say that I have received a response from Jim Dowd, my MP, regarding ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
I haven’t said much about the riots here, mainly because I thought I would just be commenting on other people’s ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Nadine Dorries and Frank Field have proposed an amendment to the health and social care bill that would bar charities ...(read more)
by jdc325
McKinsey in shock discovery that if you put things in numerical order half of them will fall below the median. ...(read more)
by pj
Via Dr Grumble:Addressing the Royal College of Nursing conference in 2009 according to the New Statesman. (read more)
by pj
Tuesday’s press was full of stories such as this suggesting that one in four current 16 year olds will live ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
From the Guardian:One of the big debates around the NHS is whether its budget should be allowed to grow ...(read more)
by pj
Now I may not be the best doctor in the world, but I'm pretty sure I can distinguish PEA from ...(read more)
by pj
The RCN is usually a pretty spineless union but they've shown more balls than the BMA:...this meeting of the RCN ...(read more)
by pj
As explained in the Telegraph - our wonderful legal system has a new concept - the hyperinjunction - not the ...(read more)
by pj
David Colquhoun asks "Why does the MHRA refuse to label herbal products honestly?" Basically the EU regulations state that you ...(read more)
by pj
Richard Blogger of the torylies blog has a good site addressing some of the 'myths' around the 'reform' of the ...(read more)
by pj
Read this article today from a consultant working in the ill-fated Mid Staffordshire Trust:In my opinion a major underlying cause ...(read more)
by pj
Baroness Murphy blogs on the NHS 'reforms':Given the recent Ombudsman’s report about the quality of care for older people, ...(read more)
by pj
Vince Cable:...has confirmed the 50p rate on tax will be abolished He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "It ...(read more)
by pj
The King's Fund demonstrate their true colours again, according to the GP magazine 'Pulse':The King’s Fund has called for entire ...(read more)
by pj
Duck on the Badscience forums asked me to blog my concerns about the future of the NHS and how what ...(read more)
by pj
Via the Jobbing Doctor, according to this BBC story: "Dr David Bennett, head of the economic regulator Monitor, has told ...(read more)
by pj
Inevitably, the Hutton report into public sector pensions has reccomended changes – the most notable being basing pensions on career ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Interesting article in the BMJ on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) initiative started under Labour and continuing under ...(read more)
by pj
We're constantly told by the government that its squeeze on public finances will not affect frontline services in the NHS. ...(read more)
by pj
On Newsnight tonight how Britain's military and government promoted selling dowsing rods to third world countries for thousands of pounds. ...(read more)
by pj
Our trust has just made a big chunk of people redundant, admin staff, nurses and doctors. Last year my pay ...(read more)
by pj
Do you think you've got severe depression? Well you're wrong, you are in 'care cluster 4':"This group is characterised by ...(read more)
by pj
This is what Alan Maynard, economist, and influence behind much government thinking on the NHS, thinks is the way forward:"...can ...(read more)
by pj
Neuroskeptic reports on another paper that:"...has added to the growing ranks of studies finding that antidepressant drugs don't work in ...(read more)
by pj
[BPSDB]It is almost New Year so I thought I would conduct a review of the major themes of 2010 as ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
From the GP magazine 'Pulse': "Dr Andrew Dearden, chair of the BMA’s pensions committee, said...the NHS Pension Scheme was running ...(read more)
by pj
From the comments to part 2 Christopher Snowden notes that:"...since the only plausible mechanism is through stress and CVD, what ...(read more)
by pj