All companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange are required to detail all known business risks for their investors; these documents need to be lodged withthe US Securities and Exchange Commission and can be viewed by anyone who can plough their way through the many thousands …
Electrosensitivity
The fallibility of peer review
Regular readers of this blog will know that while recognising the tremendous benefits that scientific research has conferred on medicine, I, among many others, am often somewhat sceptical about much of what is offered up to us (and gains wide acceptance) as 'peer reviewed' gospel …
Are you addicted to your mobile phone?
'Materialism and impulsiveness drive mobile phone addiction.... they are used as part of the conspicuous consumption ritual and also act as a pacifiers for the impulsive tendencies of the user – impulsiveness playing an important role in both behavioural and substance …
Bioinitiative Report 2012 and ‘bad science’
Why would the CEO of Belgacom, Belgiums' equivalent of BT, have banned wifi from his 27th floor office, preferring to use wired connections, ask callers to call him back on his land line rather than his mobile and warn children that they should turn off their mobile phones at …
Dodgy drugs and a pill that treats and tells
Two articles came my way this morning, both of which I would recommend. The first is an extract, in last Friday's Guardian, from Ben Goldacre's about-to-be-published new book, Bad Pharma. The tale he tells is not new (dodgy practices by drug companies who fail to publish …