This post is only if you’re not bored of the rather trying electrosensitivity lobby. Here is a letter which has popped up all over the interweb, I assume it is genuinely from Dr Carlo, who is hawked about as a rather eminent figure, and not a fake created in an effort to smear him.
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Dr George Carlo responds to Andrew Goldacre
And science said atom bombs were safe too…
I’m in a dash, but I thought you deserved these two brave rebuttals of the peripheral criticisms that the ubiquitous electromagnetic radiation scaremongers have received. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive piece – Medical research threatened by patient consent
I was reminded of this article during a conversation with Julian Peto here last night: it’s a golden gasser from yesteryear, a piece I wrote for the Guardian in 2001. It originally appeared with the wrong surname, so you’ll just have to trust that it really was me what wrote it.
At the bottom, I’ve pasted an article on a similar subject by Peto that he sent me this morning. If it’s a subject that interests you then it’s worth following the link to the BMJ page (assuming you can access) and following up the related stories and also the Rabid Responses, as they are, er, known on the street. Read the rest of this entry »
Big Pharma Bashing Documentary And Discussion Panel 6pm Tonight
I’m doing a discussion panel after this film on the evils of big pharma tonight, Tuesday, 6pm in Bloomsbury, London, as part of the Declaration of Independence Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
Adriano Penna, Napoli, is a thieving drongo
From the two steps forward one step back department, this is an exercise in public humiliation. Read the rest of this entry »
Reed Elsevier Quit The Arms Trade?
I just got this from Tom Stafford of the campaign at Idiolect. As you will know academic publisher Reed-Elsevier, who publish journals such as the Lancet, also organise the DSEI arms fayre in London, selling weapons and torture equipment to some highly dodgy states. To many people – like, er, me, and loads of other people – this has always felt rather at odds with working for the good of humanity by increasing the sum total of human knowledge about health. Even the editors of the Lancet have written to the company in the past expressing their dismay.
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