UCL have just issued a smashing statement on Prof Colquhoun’s de-excommunication.
The Mighty David Colquhoun
[Update: Letter from Provost below]
Ben Goldacre
Saturday June 9, 2007
The Guardian
I’ve always said you’d get a lot more kids interested in science if you told them it involves fighting – which of course it does. This week, for example, Professor David Colquhoun FRS – one of the most eminent scientists in the UK – has been forced to remove his quackbusting blog from the UCL servers where it has lived for many years, after complaints from disgruntled alternative therapists.
In Praise of Genius
Superlative quackhunting by the formidable (in the french pronunciation of the word) Prof David Colquhoun FRS, chasing down those cheeky scamps from “Stop Snoring”, and their claim-rich TV adverts. They bang on about clinical trials. Colquhoun… finds them and reads them…
www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/quack.html#snore
Ah me, simple pleasures. It’s amazing how the Read the rest of this entry »
