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The Guardian: Science
- Dithering over statins' side-effects label finally ends November 21, 2009
- Spears didn't wipe out mammoths November 19, 2009
NHS Choices: Behind the Headlines
- Swine flu latest from the NHS November 21, 2009Last updated: 01.00 BST A strain of swine flu which is resistant to Tamiflu appears to have spread between patients at a hospital in Wales. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has confirmed that five patients at the unit, who all have serious underlying health problems and suppressed immune systems, are resistant to the antiviral drug. The HPA said the risk t […]
- Cannibalism clue to brain disease November 20, 2009Research on a “brain-eating tribe” may hold the key to understanding and even treating mad cow disease, according to The Daily Telegraph. A genetic study of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea has shown that certain members carry genetic mutations that protect them from a disease called kuru, which can be contracted by eating prion proteins in brain matter. T […]
Bad Science
- Oh, that was quick November 21, 2009Ben Goldacre, Saturday 21 November 2009, The Guardian Once your medicines regulator decides it should change the side effects warnings on the patient information of a drug taken by millions of people, how long do you think it would take for that change to be implemented? In February 2008 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory [...]
- wtf? November 14, 2009Ben Goldacre, Saturday 14 November 2009, The Guardian It’s always interesting when people take pseudoscience out of its natural habitat – Islington – and off into a place where the stakes are quite high. Like the polio vaccine scare in Nigeria. Or Aids denialism in South Africa. Or detecting bombs in Iraq, where the New York [...]
The Naked Scientists
- Tripping over Psychoactive Toads October 13, 2009For anyone fresh out of frogs and tempted to kiss a toad instead, this article has a word of warning. Although certain species of toads do make hallucinogenic chemicals linked to a lively "trip", many produce a lethal cocktail of cardiotoxic compounds that could turn such a trip into a once in a lifetime experience, en-route to the mortuary. So whi […]
- Deconstructing Chomsky - Re-writing the Innate Rules of Grammar October 1, 2009Noam Chomsky, a rookie professor at MIT, published a ground-breaking book called Syntactic Structures, which set out a theory of Generative Grammar. He suggested that a Universal Grammar (UG) of basic linguistic principles and a Transformational Grammar of rules responsible for putting sentences together was hard wired into all of us. Some don't agree i […]
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