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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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| 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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