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Drop it now.", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2012/03/03/the-health-and-social-security-bill-is-an-unholy-mess-drop-it-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-health-and-social-security-bill-is-an-unholy-mess-drop-it-now", "published_at": "2012-03-03T09:30:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c539-087e-7246-8dd8-3ba30f895b7b", "title": "Which? magazine: “…high street nutritional therapists are a waste of money”", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2012/01/16/which-magazine-high-street-nutritional-therapists-are-a-waste-of-money/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=which-magazine-high-street-nutritional-therapists-are-a-waste-of-money", "published_at": "2012-01-15T23:00:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c539-087e-7246-8dd8-3ba310098807", "title": "Dodgy questionnaires and dubious projects: Wellbeing part 2", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2012/01/09/dodgy-questionnaires-and-dubious-projects-wellbeing-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dodgy-questionnaires-and-dubious-projects-wellbeing-part-2", "published_at": "2012-01-09T12:47:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c539-087e-7246-8dd8-3ba3102634fd", "title": "The demise of quackademia. 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Come on, Marc Stephens, make my day", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/11/26/the-cruelty-of-the-burzynski-clinic-must-be-stopped-come-on-marc-stephens-make-my-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cruelty-of-the-burzynski-clinic-must-be-stopped-come-on-marc-stephens-make-my-day", "published_at": "2011-11-26T10:22:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c539-087e-7246-8dd8-3ba311d99e3d", "title": "Science, philosophy and religion: which best offers us the tools to understand the world around us?", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/11/05/science-philosophy-and-religion-which-best-offers-us-the-tools-to-understand-the-world-around-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-philosophy-and-religion-which-best-offers-us-the-tools-to-understand-the-world-around-us", "published_at": "2011-11-05T00:33:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c539-087e-7246-8dd8-3ba3127ed5a8", "title": "Why philosophy is largely ignored by science", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/10/28/why-philosophy-is-largely-ignored-by-science/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-philosophy-is-largely-ignored-by-science", "published_at": "2011-10-28T13:45:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08e6aba1f1", "title": "The University of Wales disgraced (but its vice chancellor is promoted)", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/10/03/the-university-of-wales-disgraced-but-its-vice-chancellor-is-promoted-ju/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-university-of-wales-disgraced-but-its-vice-chancellor-is-promoted-ju", "published_at": "2011-10-03T21:52:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08e71574bc", "title": "University of Westminster shuts down naturopathy, nutritional therapy, but keeps Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine.", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/08/17/university-of-westminster-shuts-down-naturopathy-nutritional-therapy-but-keeps-acupuncture-and-herbal-medicine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=university-of-westminster-shuts-down-naturopathy-nutritional-therapy-but-keeps-acupuncture-and-herbal-medicine", "published_at": "2011-08-17T11:43:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08e80e276e", "title": "Professor Geoffrey Petts of the University of Westminster says they “are not teaching pseudo-science”. The facts show this is not true", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/08/11/professor-geoffrey-petts-of-the-university-of-westminster-says-they-are-not-teaching-pseudo-science-the-facts-show-this-is-not-true/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=professor-geoffrey-petts-of-the-university-of-westminster-says-they-are-not-teaching-pseudo-science-the-facts-show-this-is-not-true", "published_at": "2011-08-11T15:37:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08e8d36984", "title": "Dr Elizabeth Thompson of Bristol Homeopathic Hospital finds that pills that contain nothing have no effect (not even placebo effect)", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/07/27/dr-elizabeth-thompson-of-bristol-homeopathic-hospital-finds-that-pills-that-contain-nothing-have-no-effect-not-even-placebo-effect/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-elizabeth-thompson-of-bristol-homeopathic-hospital-finds-that-pills-that-contain-nothing-have-no-effect-not-even-placebo-effect", "published_at": "2011-07-27T22:46:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08e93a08c0", "title": "Apologists for Andrew Wakefield at Southampton University: a Russell group university teaching some dangerous nonsense", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/07/03/apologists-for-andrew-wakefield-at-southampton-university-a-russell-group-university-teaching-some-dangerous-nonsense/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apologists-for-andrew-wakefield-at-southampton-university-a-russell-group-university-teaching-some-dangerous-nonsense", "published_at": "2011-07-03T17:10:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08e9640b10", "title": "Half-baked nonsense in The Atlantic", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/06/23/half-baked-nonsense-in-the-atlantic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=half-baked-nonsense-in-the-atlantic", "published_at": "2011-06-23T13:38:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08e972a18a", "title": "Freedom of information reveals some unusual testimonials for the University of Westminster: when will Professor Geoffrey Petts do something about it?", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/06/20/freedom-of-information-reveals-some-unusual-testimonials-for-the-university-of-westminster-when-will-professor-geoffrey-petts-do-something-about-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freedom-of-information-reveals-some-unusual-testimonials-for-the-university-of-westminster-when-will-professor-geoffrey-petts-do-something-about-it", "published_at": "2011-06-20T08:50:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08e9e79752", "title": "Acupuncturists show that acupuncture doesn’t work, but conclude the opposite: journal fails", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/05/31/acupuncturists-show-that-acupuncture-doesnt-work-but-conclude-the-opposite-journal-fails/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acupuncturists-show-that-acupuncture-doesnt-work-but-conclude-the-opposite-journal-fails", "published_at": "2011-05-31T15:12:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08eac1eb4b", "title": "Willett’s private university in trouble. Private Eye explains", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/05/28/willetts-private-university-in-trouble-private-eye-explains/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=willetts-private-university-in-trouble-private-eye-explains", "published_at": "2011-05-28T10:47:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c542-79c6-7302-bcd9-9d08eadbbd3b", "title": "More dangerous nonsense from the University of Westminster: when will Professor Geoffrey Petts do something about it?", "url": "https://www.dcscience.net/2011/05/03/more-dangerous-nonsense-from-the-university-of-westminster-when-will-professor-geoffrey-petts-do-something-about-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-dangerous-nonsense-from-the-university-of-westminster-when-will-professor-geoffrey-petts-do-something-about-it", "published_at": "2011-05-03T08:10:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

Resonators and kindred fraudsoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2025

2024

Artificial intelligence is surprisingly good at detecting quackeryoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2024
How do we stop a resurgence of fascism?original ↗
11 Mar 2024

2023

Bloody Religionoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2023

2022

A letter to our member of parliamentoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2022

2020

Why p values can’t tell you what you need to know and what to do about itoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2020
The transgender questionoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2020
Dr Rosi Sexton for leader of the Green Partyoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2020
The toppling of Edward Colstonoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2020
Exponential growth is terrifyingoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2020
The history of eugenics at UCL: the inquiry reportoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2020

2018

An interview with Rosi Sexton: polymathoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2018
Bernard L. Ginsborg (1925 – 2018). A tribute.original ↗
2 Nov 2018
Eugenics, UCL and freedom of speechoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2018

2017

Christopher Robin: a sad storyoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2017
If your baby is crying, what do you do? Stick pins in itoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2017

2016

More on bullying at Imperial College London. What’s being done?original ↗
21 Dec 2016
Hotshot. A supplement scam with a difference?original ↗
25 Oct 2016
Food the Forgotten Medicine: More bait and switch from the “College of Medicine”original ↗
21 Aug 2016
Cupping: bruises for the gullible, and other myths in sportoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2016
NICE rejects acupuncture for low back painoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2016
Statistics and the law: the prosecutor’s fallacyoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2016

2015

Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to workoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2015
How long until the next bomb? Why there’s no reason to think that nuclear deterrence worksoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2015
The perils of P values, in Chalkdust magazineoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2015
Stefan Grimm (1963 – 2014). A memorial to a victim of managerialismoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2015
There are powerful currents whipping up the metric tide. The HEFCE metrics reportoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2015
Are women still at a disadvantage in science?original ↗
15 Jun 2015
Prince Charles’ letters confirm that he’s not fit to be kingoriginal ↗
15 May 2015
The reproducibility of Science. A meeting report.original ↗
14 Apr 2015
The death of Stefan Grimm was “needless”. And Imperial has done nothing to prevent it happening againoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2015
The University of Warwick brings itself into disrepute -four times. Watch your tone of voice.original ↗
8 Apr 2015
Herbs get the push: no statutory regulation for western herbalists or Traditional Chinese Medicineoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2015
What to do about research assessment (the REF)? A proposal for two-stage university educationoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2015
Duchess in the soup. Sarah Ferguson in quack diet scamoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2015

2014

Some experiences of life at Imperial College London. An external inquiry is needed after the death of Stefan Grimmoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2014
Publish and perish at Imperial College London: the death of Stefan Grimmoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2014
What a paean from Ben Goldacre can dooriginal ↗
16 Nov 2014
Two more cases of hype in glamour journals: magnets, cocoa and memoryoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2014
The Saatchi bill won’t find a cure for cancer, but it will encourage charlatansoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2014
UCL’s senior common room and the Boston marathon: emancipation in the 1960s, and noworiginal ↗
25 Aug 2014
Some more pharmacological history: the legend of the Brocken and the statistics of purity in heartoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2014
What is meant by the "accuracy" of screening tests?original ↗
14 Jul 2014
Should metrics be used to assess research performance? A submission to HEFCEoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2014
Bad financial management at Kings College London means VC Rick Trainor is firing 120 scientistsoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2014
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: a revieworiginal ↗
16 Apr 2014
On the hazards of significance testing. Part 2: the false discovery rate, or how not to make a fool of yourself with P valuesoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2014
On the hazards of significance testing. Part 1: the screening problemoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2014
Some pharmacological history: an exam from 1959original ↗
6 Feb 2014
La Trobe University (Melbourne) takes money to promote quackeryoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2014
Why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmaresoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2014

2013

Science is harmed by hype. How to live for 969 years.original ↗
31 Dec 2013
We know little about the effect of diet on health. That’s why so much is written about itoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2013
Yet another incompetent regulator. The General Pharmaceutical Council is criminally negligentoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2013
One incompetent regulator, the Professional Standards Authority, approves another, the CNHCoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2013
A review of Do You Believe in Magic, by Paul Offit. And a fine piece of timidity from Nature Medicineoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2013
The Quacktitioner Royal is a threat to constitutional government and to the health of the nationoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2013
Connect Physical Health sells quackery to NHSoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2013
Blogs lead in critical thinking, but newspapers still matteroriginal ↗
10 Jun 2013
Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo: the end of a mythoriginal ↗
30 May 2013
The election of Prince Andrew to the Royal Society. What Fellows think.original ↗
25 May 2013
A curious letter from David Tredinnick MP, the government’s resident medical loonoriginal ↗
15 May 2013
A right Royal cock-up. Prince Andrew elected to the Royal Societyoriginal ↗
3 May 2013
Another update. Red meat doesn’t kill you, but the spin is fascinatingoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2013
The exploitation of cancer patients is wicked. Carrot juice for lunch, then die destituteoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2013
The British Pharmacological Society and the MHRA don’t help the cause of honest science. They hinder it.original ↗
27 Feb 2013
Policy-based evidence. Department of Health and Prince’s Foundation censor accurate information about magic medicinesoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2013

2012

Abuses of genomic screening, advertising on the BBC and a shocking legal threatoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2012
Some medicines that don’t work. Why doesn’t the MHRA tell us honestly?original ↗
20 Nov 2012
Should my wife volunteer for Synexus osteoporosis trial?original ↗
17 Nov 2012
Academic role model? Moi?original ↗
26 Oct 2012
Regulation of alternative medicine: why it doesn’t work, and never canoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2012
Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma. Buy it now. Then do something.original ↗
25 Sept 2012
In which Simon Gaskell, of Queen Mary, University of London, makes a cock-uporiginal ↗
15 Aug 2012
Queen Mary, University of London in The Times. Does Simon Gaskell care?original ↗
30 Jul 2012
Is Queen Mary University of London trying to commit scientific suicide?original ↗
29 Jun 2012
Bait and switch by herbalists, Chinese and Western. Simon Mills speaks.original ↗
10 Jun 2012
Dr Michael Dixon of the “College of Medicine” seems to admit that alternative medicine is a placebooriginal ↗
26 May 2012
The College of Medicine is in the pocket of Crapita Capita. Is Graeme Catto selling out?original ↗
3 May 2012
The University of Aberdeen and its vice chancellor, Ian Diamond, step back from the brink?original ↗
27 Apr 2012
London Chiropractor boasts of endorsement by UCL. Just make-believe again.original ↗
23 Apr 2012
How big is the risk from eating red meat now? An update.original ↗
29 Mar 2012
The Health and Social Security Bill is an unholy mess. Drop it now.original ↗
3 Mar 2012
Which? magazine: “…high street nutritional therapists are a waste of money”original ↗
15 Jan 2012
Dodgy questionnaires and dubious projects: Wellbeing part 2original ↗
9 Jan 2012
The demise of quackademia. Progress in the last 5 years leaves Michael Driscoll and Geoffrey Petts isolated.original ↗
1 Jan 2012

2011

Open access, peer review, grants and other academic conundrumsoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2011
The cruelty of the Burzynski Clinic must be stopped. Come on, Marc Stephens, make my dayoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2011
Science, philosophy and religion: which best offers us the tools to understand the world around us?original ↗
5 Nov 2011
Why philosophy is largely ignored by scienceoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2011
The University of Wales disgraced (but its vice chancellor is promoted)original ↗
3 Oct 2011
University of Westminster shuts down naturopathy, nutritional therapy, but keeps Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine.original ↗
17 Aug 2011
Professor Geoffrey Petts of the University of Westminster says they “are not teaching pseudo-science”. The facts show this is not trueoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2011
Dr Elizabeth Thompson of Bristol Homeopathic Hospital finds that pills that contain nothing have no effect (not even placebo effect)original ↗
27 Jul 2011
Apologists for Andrew Wakefield at Southampton University: a Russell group university teaching some dangerous nonsenseoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2011
Half-baked nonsense in The Atlanticoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2011
Freedom of information reveals some unusual testimonials for the University of Westminster: when will Professor Geoffrey Petts do something about it?original ↗
20 Jun 2011
Acupuncturists show that acupuncture doesn’t work, but conclude the opposite: journal failsoriginal ↗
31 May 2011
Willett’s private university in trouble. Private Eye explainsoriginal ↗
28 May 2011
More dangerous nonsense from the University of Westminster: when will Professor Geoffrey Petts do something about it?original ↗
3 May 2011
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