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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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| Friday 24 October 2008 |
Tackling the epidemic of ‘bad science’
Ben Goldacre’s new book offers an entertaining romp through the wacky world of homeopathy, nutritionism and other assorted quackeries. Yet he gives an easy ride to more influential forms of pseudoscience.
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| Wednesday 8 October 2008 |
Childhood obesity is not a form of child abuse
Public health zealots have no business putting fat kids on the at-risk register. Plus: Listen to Rob Lyons debate Tam Fry.
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| Monday 22 September 2008 |
Tackling the epidemic of ‘bad science’
In his new book, Ben Goldacre takes a welcome swipe at quackery, but misses the wider abuse of science for political ends.
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| Friday 5 September 2008 |
AIDS epidemic? It was a ‘glorious myth’
The author of 1987’s The Truth About the AIDS Panic welcomes two new whistleblowing texts on the opportunism of the AIDS industry.
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| Friday 29 August 2008 |
The authorities have lied, and I am not glad
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, author of 1987’s The Truth About the AIDS Panic, says it is a shame that AIDS insiders did not expose the myths and opportunism of the AIDS industry earlier. But still, better late than never.
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| Tuesday 1 July 2008 |
The real choice: public or private squalor
After Darzi, patients are still treated as poor supplicants or truculent consumers prone to outbursts of violence.
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| Friday 13 June 2008 |
Taking a political placebo
The radical backlash against alternative medicine allows liberals to imagine a return to their glory days of fighting against ‘menaces to civilisation’.
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| Friday 30 May 2008 |
Taking a political placebo
The radical backlash against alternative medicine allows liberals to imagine a return to their glory days of fighting against ‘menaces to civilisation’. But it sheds little light on the real problem with the politics of health today.
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| Friday 9 May 2008 |
Derry 1968: Ireland’s ‘moment of truth’
When people in Derry rose up to challenge their sectarian rulers, they were written-off and ignored by a British left fiercely loyal to the state.
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| Wednesday 30 April 2008 |
‘Healthy living’ zaps the fun from life
Kicking off a brand new debate about medicine, GP and author Michael Fitzpatrick says there’s more to life than ‘bovine contentment’.
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| Friday 25 April 2008 |
How the British left
betrayed Ireland’s 1968
When people in Derry, inspired by the international radicalism of 1968, rose up to challenge their sectarian rulers, they were ignored, written off and condescended to by a British left fiercely loyal to the British state.
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| Monday 31 March 2008 |
I’m backing Boris for London mayor
Where Ken Livingstone cynically postured against MMR, risking the health of London’s children, Boris Johnson at least defended the vaccine.
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| Friday 1 February 2008 |
The rise and fall of anti-MMR mania
Journalists once fawned over ‘brave’, ‘glossy-haired’ anti-MMR crusaders; now they denounce them as quacks. What happened?
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| Friday 25 January 2008 |
Anti-MMR mania:
diagnosis and cure
Once, the media fawned over anti-MMR crusaders; they were ‘handsome’, ‘glossy-haired’ and ‘brave’. Now it ridicules them as quacks. What explains journalists’ turn from inflaming anti-vaccine hysteria to embracing scientific evidence?
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| Wednesday 9 January 2008 |
Healthy in mind and body… what about spirit?
For Aristotle, health meant a ‘flourishing life’. Today, with Brown’s offer of bodily screening, health has been reduced to mere animal fitness.
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| Friday 21 December 2007 |
Was Jesus a revolutionary?
In our age of vulgar atheistic polemics, Catholic-turned-Marxist Terry Eagleton brings a rare combination of intellectual depth and seriousness to his study of the gospels. But humanity will not find salvation in the ‘Good Book’.
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| Monday 8 October 2007 |
The Doublespeak of the Darzi review
An interim report on the future of the National Health Service is based on a profound misunderstanding of Britain’s current ‘health crisis’.
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