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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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| Monday 3 September 2007 |
Measles: the bitter results of a rash panic
When middle-class parents turn their noses up at the MMR vaccine, it increases the risk of disease for everyone's children - especially those in poorer families.
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| Friday 31 August 2007 |
Why did communism
survive for so long?
Despite what Robert Service says, its longevity had nothing to do with Russian breastmilk. It was the failures of capitalism that kept it alive.
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| Friday 24 August 2007 |
Why communism survived
for so long
Despite what Robert Service says in his GCSE coursework book masquerading as an academic study, the longevity of communism had nothing to do with Russian breastmilk. It was the failures of capitalism that kept it alive.
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| Tuesday 17 July 2007 |
The dark art of the MMR-autism panic
As Andrew Wakefield appears at the GMC, spiked traces the efforts of a shabby scaremongering caravanserai to continue peddling a panic.
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| Friday 13 July 2007 |
Baiting the devout
Intellectuals who have lost their belief in progress are turning venomously on those who retain a vision of the good society: the religious.
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