How satisfactory! Monsanto are giving up on attempts to persuade Europeans to grow their GM crops. Opposition has been fierce - not, sadly, in the UK where the government, currently in the person of our Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, …
Autism and wheat
A new study by a team from Columbia University, Weill Cornell Medical College and Uppsala University in Sweden has caused somewhat of a stir recently by suggesting that 'a subset of children with autism displays increased immune reactivity to gluten, the mechanism of which …
Do clinical trials work?
I was delighted to read, last week, a lengthy article in the NY Times posing the question that has bothered me for years about the much lauded 'gold standard randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial'. When every individual is so different physiologically, genetically, …
The power of the blogosphere
We all know about the power of Twitter. Governments have been toppled, revolutions won, reputations ruined and fortunes made thanks to that little bird. Facebook doesn't do too badly either although I am not sure that it can, as yet claim any revolutions. But meanwhile, in its …
PPD in hair dye and elsewhere
If I check the stats for this blog for the most popular posts, way up in the top five is a very short post back in October 2011 on the dangers of PPD. So, it would seem that this is a matter of considerable concern to many people, on which they cannot find much information. On …