This blog is my space to write about some of the scientific and technical issues that interest me. I am a Charted Physicist and Engineer. I intend to write about good and bad science; the use of statistics; the abuse of the scientific process and anything else that takes my fancy.
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The Journal of Health Services Research and Policy has just published a ‘perspective’ piece by Professor Alan Breen of the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in which he, unsurprisingly, praises Chiropractic (Breen, 2009).
The concluding...
The April edition of Physics World carried an interesting article on risk-taking in science. The central question posed by the author was, “are pushing revolutionary ideas to the margins. ”
Unfortunately in this thought-provoking and otherwise...
From his letter published in this week’s New Scientist it is clear that Professor George Lewith doesn’t like Edzard Ernst’s recent opinion piece on Chiropractic. However, it is just as clear that Lewith is prepared to use fallacious reasoning...
Last week I tried to get a modestly sized letter published in the New Scientist, to highlight just one of the very poor pieces of argumentation displayed by BCA vice-president Richard Brown in an opinion piece. Unfortunately, I failed. Space is...
The BCA have, at last, released their much heralded “plethora” of evidence. They preface this with an incredible statement, which includes the following gems:
“In the spirit of a wider scientific debate, and having taken appropriate...
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