You have to feel sorry for anyone involved with ‘elf ‘n safety. Whenever they get it right, they are joyless jobsworths sucking all the pleasure out of life. When they get it wrong, they are criticised for putting children at risk; viz., Godstone Farm. The short version of the story is that Godstone Farm, a [...]

The British Chiropractic Association website informs me that The British Chiropractic Association is proud to be a member organisation of ARMA, the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance. ARMA is the UK umbrella association bringing together support groups, professional bodies and research organisations in the field of arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions. click here to go to [...]

An excellent documentary from PBS about anti-vax. More information on Jenny McCarthy and vaccines in general at JennyMcCarthyBodyCount.com.

Yesterday evening saw the Skeptics in the Pub (the skeptics being of London and the pub the Penderel’s Oak) to hear Martin J Robbins (twitter @mjrobbins), of layscience.net and the Guardian, talk on ‘the impossibility of debating homeopathy’. Martin has kindly agreed to send me the slides from his presentation and I will post them [...]

More at scienceblogs.com I hope that Desiree Jennings recovers from whatever ails her. However, the moral of the story is that science reporting is still abysmally bad and the plural of anecdote is not data. xD.

I just thought I’d mention this excellent post, and on the back of it say that the NHS website has accurate and unbiased information on the cervical cancer jab and cervical cancer vaccination. Oh, and a link to the Jenny McCarthy Body Count. xD.

An excerpt from the Anti-Anti Vax Discussion Panel at The Amaz!ng meeting 7 in Las Vegas. It’s worth quoting a line from Joe Albietz about why vaccination matters: Medical progress has been phenomenal over the past century. We can save the life of children born at three hundred grammes, we’ve turned childhood leukaemia from a [...]

In a public service information film from 1948, Charley has the workings of the National Health Service explained to him. By Halas & Batchelor from the fascinating collection of British Government Public Information Films at archive.org.

Barney Frank FTW. xD.

I’ve spent a very pleasant evening in the company of the Sceptics in the Pub London, where the speaker was Dr. Aubrey de Gray, Chief Scientific Officer with the SENS Foundation. In brief, de Gray (Wikipedia article) set out the work of the SENS foundation which, as I understand it, looks at ageing as a [...]