If you’re in any doubt at all as what top-notch science blogging looks like then let me direct your attention to three new articles by Orac, Steven Novella and David Gorski, all of which tackle a new paper, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, under […]

The last few years have seen more than their fair share of abusive libel actions but none quite so bizarre as the infamous cases in which Johanna Kaschke sued bloggers Dave Osler and John Gray, and LabourHome owner, Alex Hilton, for libel, as a litigant in person. Those […]

Nadin Dorries’ latest ravings have already prompted one or two WTF? comments in the Twittersphere: If the image is a little on the small side for some readers, the text of Dorries’ missive, which was posted at 16:29 on 11 July 2011, runs as follows: Damian McBride and […]

If you’re looking for a good argument for greater regulation of the British press then perhaps the best one around at the moment is the unedifying sight of Britain’s national newspapers collectively shitting themselves at the mere thought that someone, somewhere, might actually come up with a regulatory […]

In the current climate of concerted attacks on abortion rights, this is particularly important: BCAP (Broadcasting Committee of Advertising Practice) is consulting on proposals for the regulation of broadcast advertisements for post-conception advice services (PCAS). What are the current advertising rules on post-conception advice services? PCAS that are […]

Short version: Another day, another example of Nadine Dorries talking absolute rubbish. Long version: There’s a new post up at Nadine Dorries’s pseudoblog about an article which appeared in The Times yesterday, which reports on the preliminary results of a new epidemiological study by researchers at the University […]

I’ve been meaning to blog this story since it appeared in a local paper over the weekend… Birmingham councillor was offered sexual services in massage parlour A SENIOR Birmingham councillor has told how he visited a massage parlour to alleviate back pain – but was offered “sexual services” […]

Tonight I’m going to try something that’s a little off the wall even by my standards – I’m going to pre-emptively fact check a ‘report’ before its even been released into the public domain and without having any advanced sight of its contents. How, I guess your wondering, […]

There is some considerable – and I might also say deliberately contrived – confusion as to the question of whether Nadine Dorries’ abstinence bill amounts to the promotion of abstinence-only sex education. Dorries and her supporters claim that she isn’t pushing abstinence-only sex education and, of course, use […]

Across all the natural sciences no subject has stirred up more controversy over the last 150 years than that of the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens. Much of that controversy stems, of course, from the corrosive impact of the neoDarwinian synthesis on religious beliefs relating to […]