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Health Professions Council ignores its own rules: the result is nonsense
The Health Professions Council (HPC) is yet another regulatory quango. The HPC’s strapline is “Working with health professionals to protect the public” At present the HPC regulates; Arts therapists,...
View ArticleNICE falls for Bait and Switch by acupuncturists and chiropractors: it has...
First the MHRA lets down the public by allowing deceptive labelling of sugar pills (see here, and this this blog). Now it is the turn of NICE to betray its own principles. The National Institute for...
View ArticleAn excellent submission to the consultation on statutory regulation of...
Two weeks left to stop the Department of Health making a fool of itself. Email your response to tne Pittilo consultation to this email address HRDListening@dh.gsi.gov.uk I’ve had permission to post a...
View ArticleNot much Freedom of Information at University of Wales, University of...
It seems very reasonable to suggest that taxpayers have an interest in knowing what is taught in universities. The recent Pittilo report suggested that degrees should be mandatory in Acupuncture,...
View ArticleComedy gold in parliament and tragedy from Prince of Wales: editorial in...
Jump to follow-up The Yuletide edition of the BMJ carries a lovely article by Jeffrey Aronson, Patent medicines and secret remedies. (BMJ 2009;339:b5415). I was delighted to be asked to write an...
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Lindy’s Yuletide special
Snow on December 18th Roaring fire Lindy contributes acute comments regularly here. She is also an accomplished musician. She has kindly allowed me to post here four of...
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Why the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) can’t succeed (in...
Jump to follow-up Yesterday I was fired from the Conduct and Competence Committee of the CNHC. That is the organisation that was very quickly dubbed Ofquack in the blogosphere. So now I am free to...
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Pseudo-regulation: another chance to save the MHRA from looking idiotic
Jump to follow-up I hate to be forced to return to the world’s most boring delusion, homeopathy. It is boring because the battle to inform people how daft it is has been almost won. Now not a single...
View ArticleGovernment lends credibility to quacks and charlatans
Jump to follow-up The long-awaited government decision concerning statutory regulation of herbalists, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and acupuncture came out today. Get the Department of Health...
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Why does the MHRA refuse to label herbal products honestly? Kent Woods and...
Jump to follow-up The absurdness of allowing statutory regulation of herbal medicines, both Western and Chinese has already been pointed out here, in Government lends credibility to quacks and...
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The British Pharmacological Society and the MHRA don’t help the cause of...
Jump to follow-up The bulletin of the British Pharmacological Society, Pharmacology Matters, declined to publish the following article. Sadly the Society seems to be more interested in "reputation...
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A review of Do You Believe in Magic, by Paul Offit. And a fine piece of...
Jump to follow-up Despite the First Amendment in the US and a new Defamation Act in the UK, fear of legal threats continue to suppress the expression of honest scientific opinion. I was asked by Nature...
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One incompetent regulator, the Professional Standards Authority, approves...
Jump to follow-up The consistent failure of ‘regulators’ to do their job has been a constant theme on this blog. There is a synopsis of dozens of them at Regulation of alternative medicine: why it...
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Why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares
Jump to follow-up This discussion seemed to be of sufficient general interest that we submitted is as a feature to eLife, because this journal is one of the best steps into the future of scientific...
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Prince Charles’ letters confirm that he’s not fit to be king
Jump to follow-up This post was written for the Spectator Health section, at short notice after the release of the spider letters. The following version is almost the same as appeared there, with a few...
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