Jump to follow-up Every single request for information about course materials in quack medicine that I have ever sent has been turned down by universities, It is hardly as important as as refusal of FoI requests to see climate change documents, but it does indicate that some vice-chancellors are not very interested in openness. This [...]
Entries Tagged as 'MMR'
More fails for the Freedom of Information, and a bit of history
February 12th, 2010 · 12 Comments
Tags: Academia · Department of Health · Edinburgh Napier University · Freedom of Information Act · Kate Chatfield · MMR · Michael Pittilo · Napier university · Robert Gordon's university · TCM · UCLAN · Universities · University of Central Lancashire · acupuncture · antiscience · badscience · herbalism · homeopathy · measles
Jeni Barnett and LBC: dangers to public health
February 7th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Jump to follow-up I’m a bit late on this one, but better late than never. The opinionated and ill-informed actress turned talk show host, Jeni Barnett, spent an hour or so endangering your children (and hers) with what most surely be one of the worst ever accounts of measles vaccination. The chart shows the result [...]
Tags: Bad journalism · Ben Goldacre · CAM · Jeni Barnett · LBC · MMR · badscience · measles · vaccination