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Head-to-Head with PhRMA on transparency in the BMJ 12 Jul 2013 | 08:05 pm
This week in the BMJ there’s a head-to-head on trials transparency between me and PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry representative body in the US. My article is here, PhRMA’s is here, both articles a...
Discussing AllTrials on the BBC Daily Politics today 19 Jun 2013 | 03:40 pm
I’m on the BBC2 show Daily Politics today at 12:40pm with Grant Shapps and Andy Burnham, discussing the alltrials.net campaign, and the problem of trial results being withheld from doctors, researcher...
Here’s me and Fiona Godlee (BMJ) giving evidence to Public Accounts Committee on withheld Tamiflu trials 18 Jun 2013 | 03:10 pm
In December last year a group of MPs including Sarah Wollaston, David Davis, Julian Huppert and Adam Afriyie wrote to Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, asking for an inquiry into...
Badger badger badger badger CULL badger badger badger TRIAL 1 Jun 2013 | 10:45 pm
Reading about the badger cull today, I noticed this column – on the evidence for badger culls – never got posted. Here it is! Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 23 July 2011 Squabbles between farmer...
Why is Imperial College permitting Westminster public school to sell an internship? 14 May 2013 | 06:51 pm
This is very odd indeed. Westminster, one of the most expensive public schools in the UK, is holding a fund-raising auction. In this auction, you can buy an internship at Imperial College’s Institute ...
Shame on you, Sylvia Browne, for telling Amanda Berry’s mother her daughter was dead. 8 May 2013 | 12:55 am
The story of Amanda Berry’s rescue in Cleveland – after ten years in captivity - is extraordinary. In 2004, popular psychic Sylvia Brown told Amanda’s mother that her little girl was dead. Here is a c...
My evidence to the Science and Tech Select Committee inquiry on missing trial data 26 Apr 2013 | 05:03 am
The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee are currently looking at the problem of clinical trial results being withheld from doctors and patients (partly, the committee says, in ...
Suicide advert from Hyundai is almost surreally misguided 25 Apr 2013 | 06:57 pm
The new advert from Hyundai features a depressed man attempting to commit suicide using the exhaust fumes from his car. The advert is on YouTube here, watch at your discretion. There is clear evidence...
How vaccine scares respect local cultural boundaries. 25 Apr 2013 | 03:39 am
I was on Newsnight this evening, discussing the measles outbreak in Swansea, and how we can get people vaccinated with MMR when they’ve previously refused. In my view: prevention is better than cure, ...
I’m on the One Show talking about missing trials tonight 18 Mar 2013 | 10:10 pm
I made a film for The One Show on BBC1, which goes out tonight. It’s about “publication bias“: the problem of clinical trial results being withheld from doctors and patients. (I also get to go into an...
