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Papers sent to me from Imperial College revealed abuse of crude an ineffective metrics for assessment of the performance of staff. These metrics are demonstrably bad science as well as inhuman. The Times Higher Education Supplement (June 1, 2007) devoted ...
The Nature title picture was ‘Taken from The Complete Guide to Homeopathy, © Dorling Kindersley Ltd’ (not a recommended text book at UCL) Nature (March 22 2007) ran this commentary, alongside a News item by Jim Giles: Download a reprint of th ...
Jump to follow-up One year from our first letter to NHS Trusts, we sent another. Listen to the interview by John Humphrys on the Radio 4 Today Programme, with Raymond Tallis and Peter Fisher. :And hear Fisher suggest that he works for UCL (not true). You ...
A colleague wrote to his MP to ask if anything could be done about the defrauding of the public by “psychic surgeons”. He wrote, in particular, about Stephen Turoff. Turoff was the subject of the first episode of “Trust me I’m a He ...
An early day motion in support of homeopathic hospitals shows that irrational belief in magic is not unique to one party. Virtually all MPs have no idea about science. But I was quite surprised to find out in a reply from my MP that it is official Conser ...
A new paper, with a very large sample, almost 300 000 men, shows an association between taking large doses of multivitamin supplements and death from prostate cancer. But this, like most observations on diet, was not a randomised study. The paper itself ...
A web site comes very close to claiming that cancer can be cured by a homeopathic preparation made from the blood of someone who had, allegedly, been cured of cancer by laying-on-of-hands. The site is run by a Sue Benford who has also written papers that ...
A particularly powerful plea to forget homeopathy from Michael Baum, based on his experience as a cancer surgeon. Read more on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page Share this:PrintEmailTwitterWhatsAppRedditFacebookLike this:Like Loading... ...
The latest Cochrane review finds no good evidence that acupuncture or acupressure are effective for stopping smoking Read more on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page Share this:PrintEmailTwitterWhatsAppRedditFacebookLike this:Like Loading... ...
The Health Supplements Information Service (HSIS) is a spin organisation for the supplements industry. I came across them when they attempted to discredit a report that supplements could actually increase mortality. In that case Ann Walker spoke for HSIS. ...
Two scams in which the alleged ingredients don’t exist, and the alleged evidence can’t be traced. Read more on the original IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page Share this:PrintEmailTwitterWhatsAppRedditFacebookLike this:Like Loading... ...
Twenty-five hospitals from London and southern and eastern England have already either stopped sending any patients to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital or agreed to fund only a handful A campaign has started o save it, but the arguments are far from ...
Sales of chondroitin and glucosamine are a worth billions of dollars, but the evidence that they work has never been good. A new meta-analysis of clinical trials now shows that chondroitin on the symptoms of osteoarthritis is “minimal or nonexistent& ...
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) published another bash at BSc degrees in anti-science. This one was accompanied by a defence from Brian Isbell, head of the department of complementary therapies at Westminster University. Isbell’s defen ...
The day after “Science degrees without the Science“ appeared in Nature, the University of Westminster issued a statement . In my view, their statement provides the strongest grounds so far to believe that the BSc is inappropriate. Let’ ...