MMR again

So the Lancet have published another paper on MMR, and this time it’s not Wakefield, well sort of.

An Apology

I haven’t blogged for a while, real life has taken over for a bit!

I know I promised some more on the mental health act but given that it is now fully part of ligislation I am going to wait a bit and see how it actually impacts on people’s care.

I’ll try and find something juicy to blog soon.

The obfuscating nature of electrosmog

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I thought I had dreamed this but I found it on the “Today” website , at about 6:45 this morning I heard an interview about phone masts and electrosensitivity. Now this has been blogged at length by others, notably here,  but I was struck by the folowing exchange:

When asked if he would take part in a blinded study of electrosensitivity the gentleman who was expounding the view that phone masts etc were the cause of ill health said:

A pill to help the world

Now I’m not sure quite what to make of this, I was listening to the radio on the way heard and caught the start of a story about a fish oil trial in prisons. I didn’t listen but thought I would when I got home,I forgot but I was reminded of it by Norbury on the Bad Science forum.

Just like Norbury I had a sinking feeling mainly because of the Durham fish oil non trial.

But this seems a bit different.