I’ve been wondering about the role of journals in punishing miscreant authors. A senior publisher told me he was uneasy about COPE’s retraction guidelines because although they suggest that redundant […]
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John Garrow: Libel laws and patient protection
Professor A C Grayling has written about the recent, well publicised victory of Simon Singh in the appeal court (BMJ 2010;340:c1910). As almost everyone now knows, in a previous sitting […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Wayne Rooney’s ankle and the injury league
Wayne Rooney’s ankle injury may have cost Manchester United a Champion’s League place and could still influence their premiership hopes. It is unlikely that Cesc Fabregas’s injury affected the result […]
Emily Spry is back in Freetown
If you blinked, you probably missed it, but I’m back in Freetown after a short Easter jaunt to the UK to see my family and a few friends. I was […]
Helen Jaques: Measuring the health of science journalism
Last week I attended an event on the state of science journalism called “Science in the media: rude or ailing health?” Rather than a discussion on how science is being […]
Joe Collier: The unseemly goings-on at the ACMD and how they might have been avoided
With seven members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) resigning in the last few months, and its chair, Professor David Nutt, being sacked, there must be […]
Patrick Basham: Not smoke-free but snus-free
One advantage of spending so much of my time “on the road” is that I’ve had the opportunity to observe first-hand how many nations have opted for tobacco control policies […]
Douglas Noble: Easter and transplantation
Sally Slater last week celebrated the tenth anniversary of her life-saving heart transplant. Sally was only six when she had the operation and was pictured with Billie Piper after the […]
Siddharta Yadav: Politicizing medical education
Yesterday, I witnessed a doctor being beaten up at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital of Nepal. The doctor was exiting the hospital grounds when a group of people stopped him. […]
Guy Lloyd: Dix huit semaines, zut alors!
Will none of our great political parties do something real and meaningful (as opposed to eye catching and cosmetic) about the NHS? The horror of health poverty in the USA […]