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All forms of ineffective treatment, ‘alternative’ or otherwise, pose real dilemmas that are usually neglected. I use here the term ‘alternative medicine’, rather than CAM (complementary and alternative medicine), because things tha ...
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Sigh! The Times Higher Education Supplement (27 July 2007) reports an 31.5% increase in applications for ‘university’ courses in complementary medicine. Compare this with 19 per cent fall in applications for places on anatomy, physiology and p ...
Jump to the diary. .Jump to latest diary entry . .Jump to comments In Memoriam Department of Pharmacology, UCL 1905 – 2007 On June 13th 2007, UCL’s Council endorsed the wish of the provost to disestablish all departments in the Fa ...
An interesting piece about reorganisation, by Richard Layard of LSE, in the Guardian.14 July 2007. Here is a quotation. Continue reading → Share this:PrintEmailTwitterWhatsAppRedditFacebookLike this:Like Loading... ...
One problem with the corporatisation of univerities is that it creates groups that are so large that their heads lose contact with scholarship. There is a perfect example in an advertisement for the Head of the Medical Sciences Division at Oxford. Continue ...
After the fuss about the BBC Alternative Medicine series (see next item), it was good to see the excellent report on the news last night (16th July 2007) about the appearence of the notorious Andrew Wakefield to face charges of professional misconduct. The ...
Remember that BBC2 series on Alternative Medicine, shown in February 2006? Given the superb standards of many BBC science programmes, this series was certainly very disappointing, for the reasons, for the reasons listed in detail here. At the time, my own ...
The Westminster Diet and Health Forum “aims to provide the premier environment where parliamentarians, senior policy advisors, regulators and other decision makers can discuss critical issues, and exchange ideas and information with leaders from indu ...
The saga of the excommunication of this page, and its de-excommunication, is described here, and here, and here. I am supposed to be on holiday, but the Red Lion in Grasmere has a wireless network, and this is just too good not to post at once. So, after ...
One of the effects of this affair has been the posting of some critical examinations of some of the writings of Dr Ann Walker. I make no comment. The links are here. This item appeared originally on the old IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page The reversal of UCLR ...
The Islington Tribune (11 May 2007) revealed that spiritual healers are being paid by the NHS. The National Secular Society commented “Spiritual healers” using up scarce NHS resources The University College London Hospital is to spend £80, ...
A nice spoof on an obscure variant of laying-on-of-hands. Read more on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page Share this:PrintEmailTwitterWhatsAppRedditFacebookLike this:Like Loading... ...
Thanks to Ben Goldacre’s Guardian column, and his entry on badsceince.net (http://www.badscience.net/?p=431 ), UCL has come under a lot of pressure (and my hit counter has soared). Read more on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page Share this:PrintEm ...
This was posted originally on the old IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page UCL felled by a herbalist? OK this isn’t really bad science, but it’s caused inconvenience to me and to readers. It still puzzles me that UCL has not got the resources to deal with a ...