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 →

Quackery- Dara Ó Briain says it all

Support Nadine Dorries' Freedom to Blog!

Nadine Dorries The first time I heard of Nadine Dorries M.P. for Mid Bedfordshire was when she was involved in promoting very odd pre term survival rates before the Science and Technology Select Committee enquiry. She than accused Ben Goldacre... Read more →

C4 and more WiFi scaremongering

This sort of thing gets me mad. Today, C4''s website recycles a P.A piece about WiFi technology in schools. This is not a new piece of quackery. But here we have those employed in teaching our kids coming out with... Read more →

Intelligent Design Zoo

Nothing to stop you from putting one of these in your garage! Read more →

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 →

Obama's beliefs- the Audacity of Reason?

Most of us are looking forward to a new era when Barack Obama takes his oath of office on Tuesday next week. Obama claims to be a deeply religious man, though one of his mentors appears to have rather unusual... Read more →

What the Observer's MMR Piece Didn't Tell You!

Next week Dr Andrew Wakefield and two of his colleagues from the Royal Free Hospital face the General Medical Council. Wakefield has been accused of acting " dishonestly" when he presented a piece of work to the Lancet which suggested... Read more →

Proof of Unintelligent Design.

Hat tip to my old chum Joel Shearer from Austin TX , for pointing this in my direction. The 2008 Republican presidential candidates were asked during a debate if any of them believed in evolution. Remarkably THREE, Brownback, Tancredo and... Read more →

Kicked in the McTeeth

Ben Goldacre of Bad Science has been writing for some time about "Dr" Gillian McKeith, her misleading qualification, her products and loony TV behaviour on Channel4 . This morning, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has ordered a... Read more →