Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Another example of HMG refusing to follow the evidence

Prof David Colquhoun's written memo to the Science and Technology committee. HMG ignored evidence & let the NHS go for the snake oil. Read more →

Thought for the Day- 15th November 2009

"For decades, pharmaceutical heroine was prescribed by doctors to patients who had become addicted after operations, particularly soldiers who had undergone battlefield surgery.They spent years on a legal supply: it did them no damage, and they led healthy, fruitful lives.... Read more →

Bacon and Sausages off the Today Menu?

This morning, Today Programme allowed the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) to peddle the link between processed meat, sausages, bacon, salami and ham, and colorectal cancer. You can listen to the interview here. The link was made in the 2007... Read more →

Universal healthcare is terrorist recruitment tool

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Ben Goldacre,Jeni Barnett, MMR and LBC's Heavy Legal Hand..!

Today, the Health Protection Agency announced a staggering 36% annual increase in the confirmed cases of measles. Since 1998, when the original, and now entirely discredited, work by Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues linked the triple MMR jab with autism... Read more →

The power of prayer...let the children die.

Madeline Kara Neumann Hundreds of thousands of Christian worshippers will be trooping into their churches this Sunday. Without exception they will acknowledge the existence of an invisible deity. A deity with absolute power over the world as we know it.... Read more →

The Rambler and "Thought for the Day"

I normally grumble when the Today Programme interrupts its current affairs with "Thought for the Day". But I listened to Rev. Dr. Allan Billings' contribution on 31st March with increasing interest. He adopts the same position as I do. In... Read more →

Cameron falls straight into the Mail's abortion trap!

Today I read in the Daily Mail...no folks I don't buy the rag....an interview with David Cameron. The Mail's headline is " Cameron: Cut the abortion limit to 21 weeks" The reason he gives for supporting this is: "I would... Read more →

Observer's MMR Piece vanishes from its Archive!!!!

The link to the Observer MMR piece will, I'm afraid, no longer take you to the Observer archive. Never fear folks, you can reach it on the Googlecache here Read more →

Dennis Campbell, The Observer and the Truth

Last week I blogged about the, now infamous, MMR piece by Dennis Campbell in the Observer. Campbell's piece contained this. "the MMR jab which babies receive at 12 to 15 months, might be partly to blame. Dr. Fiona Scott and... Read more →