Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 December 2016

How public health promotes bad science

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There's a pretty good article in Nature about the 'obesity paradox'. This is the consistent finding that, especially as people ...
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Sunday, 25 October 2015

Inconvenient truths - public funding of science doesn't promote economic growth

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**** I'm in favour of science. Mostly for the "cor, wow" factor and because what scientists do at the far boundaries of our ...
Tuesday, 17 February 2015

The World's Most Important Thinkers...discussed (and they aren't economists)

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Over at a magazine called Prospect (which badges itself rather self-importantly as "The Leading Magazine of Ideas") they're...
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Friday, 29 August 2014

Politics and science...

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**** "A soldier, having seen traces of a horse in the sand, will immediately pass from the thought of a horse to the thought of a hor...
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Friday, 4 July 2014

On the BBC's definition of crank...

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**** crank 1 [ krangk ] noun 1. Machinery . any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillat...
Sunday, 1 June 2014

"White Hat Bias" - fixing results to support what you think is righteous

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When we look at research in public health fields - those matters relating to lifestyle choices especially - we often see what we suspect i...
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Sunday, 26 January 2014

Science doesn't support EU proposed restrictions on e-cigs

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**** The New Scientist reports that: Fifteen prominent scientists who have investigated the health consequences of electronic cigare...
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Monday, 20 January 2014

Maths and social science...

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**** The research methods lecture for my MSc sticks in my mind. Not just because I have a curiosity about different research methods and t...
Monday, 12 August 2013

The Climate Puppy

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**** A delightful analogy for the worst sort of climate change agitation: Let us use, instead of a child with cancer, a happy little ...
Tuesday, 9 July 2013

The truth about evidence-based policy making...

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**** Via Dick Puddlecote , the low down about the manipulation of truth by so-called academics: Evidence based policymaking (EBPM) is a...
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Monday, 14 January 2013

Open Access: It's not free you know - not even a little bit...

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The Internet I mean. Yet that's what people persist in believing - and worse that somehow forcing it all to be 'free' (it isn...
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Sunday, 2 December 2012

Eating stuff doesn't cause cancer....

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Pie. A very good pie. From Ellisons in Cullingworth Over recent years assorted nannying fussbuckets and attention seeking "research...
Friday, 9 November 2012

Public health - in which truth takes second place

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.... Sometimes people say the most worrying things : So if these exercises are not capable of producing truth as we know it, do they s...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Science and growth. It really isn't as simple as all that...

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**** Science is wonderful. I'll sign up to government investing in basic science every day. But I don't think it's a growth pa...