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This post is nerdy university politics stuff, but it matters a lot to some of us. I have always been impressed by the lack of interest that management theorists, and education theorists, show in subjecting their ideas to empirical tests. Edinburgh Univers ...
How irrational thinking in government and universities has led to the rise of new-age nonsense in the name of science. This article appeared on 15th August 2007, on the Guardian Science web site. The Guardian made very few cuts to the original version, b ...
Jump to follow-up Peter A. Lawrence of the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge has written a beautifully argued article, The Mismeasurement of Science. It appeared in Current Biology, Augus ...
That is the title of a paper in the BMJ (11 August 2007, 335, 304) by Anisur Rahman (reader in rheumatology, University College London). He points out the strong disincentives to collaborative work that now exist. One disincentive is the enormous amou ...
Homeopathy doesn’t poison your body, it poisons your mind Often that is true. Not always though. Homeopathy is worse than just a cultural poison if you die of malaria as a result of advice from a homeopath. The Newsnight TV programme exposed the fact ...
For once, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has done a good job. Legal loopholes prevent them from doing much about fraudulent advertisements for homeopathy, but they have upheld complaints about the Body Detox Clinic in Newcastle upon Tyne. The A ...
Channel 4 TV, Monday 13 August, 8.00 pm in the UK The Enemies of Reason: new age therapies cause ‘retreat from reason’ The Sunday Telegraph (5 August 2007) gave a bit of advance publicity for “The Enemies of Reason”. Prof Dawkins sa ...
An entire issue of the journal Homeopathy has been devoted to speculations about the memory of water. The link to this issue is http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14754916 , but sadly you can’t read the papers without a subscription to the ...
The UK government, and UK vice chancellors, are exerting a lot of pressure to increase industrial funding in Universities. So far they haven’t listened at all to suggestions that research and commerce don’t mix well. It is asking too much of h ...
Jump to Times Higher Education coverage This is a longer version of comments published in the Times Higher Education Supplement, June 1, 2007. This longer version has now been printed in full in Physiology News, 69, 12 – 14, 2007 [download the pdf v ...
When one thinks of the cult of managerialism, one name that comes to mind is Howard Newby. During his time at HEFCE, research funding became enormously concentrated, rather than being spent on good work wherever it occurred. But Newby is not a scientist, ...
Data-free discussion: Ernst | Ted Wragg | Laurie Taylor | Quotations | Here are collected a few things that made me laugh. This article was written by Edzard Ernst, professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, in Focus on A ...
The Daily Mail has always been notorious for its stories that advocate unproven and disproved treatments, but are they now getting converted to reason? Recently the Daily Mail published an excellent piece based on comments by Michael Baum. “Homeopat ...
One reason for bad science reporting is that journalists rely too much on press releases from university ‘media departments’. Their output often seems more akin to advertising than to science. A recent example came from a poor report in the Ind ...
The Independent on Sunday carried an article with the title “Electronic smog linked to respiratory disease, study shows”, by Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor. So wifi is bad for you after all? As usual the reference is not given, But if you ...