a pharmacology paper in my first final exam at the end of my third year. The external examiner was Walter Perry, head of pharmacology in Edinburgh (he went on to found the Open University). He h...
Authority ( MHRA) , the Health Professions Council (HPC), the Department of Health, the Prince of Wales and his reincarnated propaganda organisation, the "College of Medicine", the King’s
“I’m quite happy to regard it, in the words of Ben Goldacre, as a voluntary self-imposed tax on the gullible.” D:< In my view it's a sophisticated industrialised fraud capable of deceiving ...
@helen I think perhaps you meant to post your comment here. I'm baffled by why you (and many other defenders of magic medicine) say t...
I find these attacks on 'magic' medicine very interesting and I wonder why some people feel so threatened by it. I believe in freedom of choice and freedom of speech, so the detracters have every...
@David Colquhoun It's seems to me to be strange that the impact agenda, assessment by numbers and bonus culture is taking over academia so relentlessly when so many high-profile people are public...
@JamesT Oh blimey, as far as I know, the dean doesn't get a bonus when we publish a paper. What a ghastly system! From the practical point of view, it's sad that people in the UK who are fed up w...
@David Colquhoun I hope you're right - I'm sure you are. I have sent copies of your article on how to get good science and some of Peter Lawrence's related pieces to my colleagues in Australia - ...
@JamesT I guess we just have to keep pressing the case. The impact factors merchants seem to me to have much in common with homeopaths. Irrational, innumerate and interested in making money rathe...
@David Colquhoun I have to admit being ever so slightly ashamed of commenting anonymously on these matters. If there were only me to worry about, then I would 'fess up without hesitation! My expe...
@JamesT Thanks for your passionate and informative comment. I had no idea that places like the University of Queensland sunk to the very worst method of assessment, crude impact factors, The fact...
I have enjoyed immensely browsing through the material on this blogsite. I have particularly enoyed reading the various critiques of "impact" of one sort of another that are now being used to ass...
a “Festival of Wellbeing” that included a complementary therapy taster day. In a BBC interview one practitioner used the advertising opportunity, paid for by the NHS, to say
sponsored a “Festival of Wellbeing” that included a complementary therapy taster day. In a BBC interview one practitioner used the advertising opportunity, paid for by the NHS, to say “I�...
Yes, at a time of increasing redundancy threat, and campaigns to encourage academics to retire early, yet further bloat of "research facilitators" does seem odd. I too would love to know ...