Inevitably, the Hutton report into public sector pensions has reccomended changes – the most notable being basing pensions on career average salary rather than final salary. This change is being presented in some quarters as ‘fair’ because the final salary scheme disproportionately benefits high-fliers. Aye, right. Read the rest of this entry »
Fairer Pensions
March 13, 2011 by jaycueaitch2011 Numerology
March 9, 2011 by jaycueaitchI daresay most of you have seen the email being circulated that purports to demonstrate some magical significance about this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Is Medicine A Religion?
March 8, 2011 by jaycueaitch[BPSDB] In a Natural News article Larry Malerba DO, DHt argues that conventional doctors are guilty of scientism and are practitioners of a system of religious belief. Let us examine the claims. Read the rest of this entry »
Mike Adams versus the 10:23 Campaign
February 12, 2011 by jaycueaitch[BPSDB]The homeopathy-busting 10:23 Campaign has clearly rattled a few cages and Mike Adams of NaturalNews has finally come up with a rebuttal argued in his usual style. Read the rest of this entry »
Flu Vaccines Quackery
January 23, 2011 by jaycueaitch[BPSDB]Mike Adams of Natural News is still banging on about the UK seasonal flu vaccine shortage. He makes his case by completely misunderstanding UK health care provision and invoking Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent research. Read the rest of this entry »
Organic Pharmacy’s Dubious Detox Pills
January 17, 2011 by jaycueaitch[BPSDB] It is January and the detox industry is in full swing. Today’s (17 January 2011) METRO carried a full page spread on detoxing your mind and at the bottom is a sub-article on a particular brand of ‘detox capsules’. I have not given a link as it does not appear in the online version. Read the rest of this entry »
Mike Adams On The UK Flu Vaccine Shortage
January 16, 2011 by jaycueaitch[BPSDB]Mike Adams of Natural News has given us the benefit of his thinking on the UK flu vaccine shortage. Read the rest of this entry »
A Third Year of Steam
December 28, 2010 by jaycueaitch[BPSDB]It is almost New Year so I thought I would conduct a review of the major themes of 2010 as covered in this blog. Read the rest of this entry »
Mobile Phones And Sleep Patterns
December 12, 2010 by jaycueaitch[BPSDB]In my last post I commented on the METRO quoting Philip Weeks as claiming that there was American research showing that having a mobile phone by ones bed disrupted sleep patterns. There was no reference given in either the print or online versions of the articles so I requested them from Weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Electrosensitivity Again
November 29, 2010 by jaycueaitch[BPSDB] Electrosensitivity has made a return to the pages of the METRO, under the headline “Is your mobile phone really a threat to your health?”. I have heard it said that if a tabloid headline is phrased as a question, the correct answer is almost invariably “No”. That is certainly the case here. Read the rest of this entry »
