Posts tagged ‘acupuncture’
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition" Adam Smith. A blog from a British doctor.
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Dr Margaret McCartney’s Blog- Tell me the truth about Fit Notes 8 September, 2010So the big idea was that people who were off work due to illness might be able to do some work, perhaps not their regular work, or perhaps people returning to work while recovering from illness might be better having a graduated return. Rather than simply signing people off work while ill and then back to [...]
- Tell me the truth about Fit Notes 8 September, 2010
- Dr Grumble
- Stafford extended matching quiz 29 August, 2010A little quiz about concerns raised or not about mid-Staffs. Quotes are all from spring/summer 2009. Match the quote to its author:A) Baroness Young of Old Scone, then The Chairman of the Care Quality CommissionB) Mr Howard Catton, RCN spokesman, to Health Select CommitteeC) Dr. David Colin-Thome, Government Primary Care Czar and former Labour Party Candidat […]
- Stafford extended matching quiz 29 August, 2010
- Layscience
- One for all or all for one? 8 September, 2010Do we relate more easily to individual people in need than to groups? Jonah Lehrer suggests that we find it much easier to relate to individuals in need than to groups of people because of the 'identifiable victim effect'. He cites the Chilean miners as an example - a group of people who fail to interest most of us as much as a single famine victim […]Tessera
- One for all or all for one? 8 September, 2010
- Bad Medicine
- MMR Killed My HamsterThe Daily Mail, truncheon bearer to the lunching classes, has once again been trying to hit the MMR-Autism nail on the head. Softened, perhaps, by the indolence of a quiet August Bank Holiday, The Truncheon last weekend let slip a dossier of drivel that managed to combine monumental insult to an honest story about a vaccine damage payout with a level of disi […]
- MMR Killed My Hamster
- DC’s Science
- Bad Science
- Blind prejudiceBen Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 4 September 2010 Everyone likes to imagine they are rational, fair, and free from prejudice. But how easily are we misled by appearances? Noola Griffiths is an academic who studies the psychology of music, and she’s published a cracking paper on what women wear, and how that effects your judgement [...]
- Blind prejudice
