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| Friday 13 November 2009 |
The ‘McCarthyism’ of the anti-smoking lobby
Two new books expose how epidemiology has been used as a tool of propaganda in the war on tobacco, leaving little room for real facts.
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| Thursday 5 November 2009 |
Autism: moving beyond the quest for a cure
The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion challenges both those who want to cure and those who want to celebrate autism.
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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
The anti-smoking ‘truth regime’ that cannot be questioned
Two new books expose how epidemiology has been used as a tool of propaganda in the war on tobacco – and woe betide anyone who tries to inject some real facts into the debate.
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| Tuesday 27 October 2009 |
Making a pig’s ear of the vaccination debate
People are right to be sceptical about the swine-flu scare, but it is telling – and worrying – that they focus their scepticism on swine-flu jabs.
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| Friday 9 October 2009 |
Stop this witch hunt against ‘evil deniers’
Labelling everyone from critics of the AIDS industry to anti-vaccine cranks as ‘deniers’ is a way of shutting down debate and dissent.
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| Friday 25 September 2009 |
Childish jibes are no substitute for serious debate
Whether it is wielded against sensible people who criticise the political exploitation of AIDS or less-than-sensible people who claim that vaccines cause autism, the accusation of ‘denialism’ is shrill, intolerant and censorious.
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| Monday 6 July 2009 |
When public health becomes a public nuisance
The bizarre advice given to us doctors on how to deal with swine flu confirms that top-down scaremongering is destroying medical practice.
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| Friday 19 June 2009 |
In praise of Engels
A new biography shows that he loved wine, women and song, and was never afraid to leap headfirst into the intellectual battles of his day.
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| Wednesday 3 June 2009 |
An unlimited appetite for past obscenities
In the Irish elite, a voyeuristic preoccupation with clerical abuse coexists with reluctance to limit clerical influence in education and welfare.
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| Friday 29 May 2009 |
Neither Leveller nor statist
Tristram Hunt’s intelligent biography of Friedrich Engels reveals a man who loved wine, women and song and who was never afraid to leap headfirst into the great battles of ideas of his era.
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| Monday 11 May 2009 |
Asking questions is
not an ‘Inquisition’
When Michael Fitzpatrick criticised the Autism File he was branded a ‘backwoods doctor’ who should shut up. Why?
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| Tuesday 14 April 2009 |
An open letter to Gordon Brown
If you want to help families affected by autism, you shouldn’t be inviting Polly Tommey to No.10.
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| Monday 6 April 2009 |
It’s time to stop this ‘miracle cure’ madness
In his speech to the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick said the ‘war on autism’ is dehumanising people with the condition.
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| Monday 23 March 2009 |
Jade and the dangers of smear testing
Cancer charities hope that ‘Jade’s legacy’ will be more uptake of cervical smear tests. This might not be a good thing.
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| Monday 23 February 2009 |
MMR-autism scare: the truth is out at last
The ‘vaccine court’ in the United States, and its excellent expert witnesses, have finally slain and buried MMR junk science.
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| Tuesday 10 February 2009 |
The MMR scare: from foolishness to fraud?
The latest shocking revelations about Dr Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper suggest there was more to it than skewed science.
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| Thursday 4 December 2008 |
False prophets in the ‘crusade against autism’
The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion exposes the powerful quackery movement offering dodgy ‘cures’ for autism.
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| Monday 24 November 2008 |
The ghost of the ‘refrigerator mother’
The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion challenges the quackery and religiosity of the ‘crusade against autism’.
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| Tuesday 11 November 2008 |
A Salvation Army without the brass band
Doctors should refuse to become the high priests of the new anti-boozing temperance movement.
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| Wednesday 29 October 2008 |
‘Crusade against autism’: doing more harm than good
The author of the new book Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion asks why autism has sidelined even Joe the Plumber in the US election.
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