The headline get your attention? There’s recently been an appeal put out that more people should donate their organs – brains in particular – to science. In a similar sort of vein, it’s apparently National Pathology Week (I’ve booked my autopsy for Thursday morning: it’ll be ACE!), and there’s a series of podcasts to go with it. […]
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Gordon Brown opposes something that noone wants anyway…
Gordon Brown was interviewed on the radio this morning by Cormack Murphy O’Connor, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. A titanic clash of intellects it was not. Apparently Super Gord is against reforming the laws on assisted suicide: In a interview with Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, a guest editor on Today, Mr Brown was asked about calls […]
It’s oh-so Quiet…
As some of you may have heard, Wired magazine is suggesting that the age of the blog may already be over. And the level of activity here over the past couple of weeks may have lent credence to that supposition. Full service will be resumed soon – it just seems like Søren, David and I are […]
A fishy affair
By David Hunter Writing in his usual uncompromising style Ben Goldacre describes the latest carry-ons in the “trial” carried out in Durham by the Council on whether fish oils improve GCSE performance: You’ll remember the Durham fish oil “trial” story, possibly the greatest example of scientific incompetence ever documented from a local authority. Initially they […]
The Boundaries of Sanity
One of the topics to which I return every so often is ethics in psychiatry – particularly in the context of problems concerning how we decide whether someone is sane or insane. Julian Baggini ponders related topics here. Worth a few minutes, I think… […]
Well, hello there…
Having taken on board the idea that the fashionable people are always late to parties, I made it my mission to be the last person to post an entry here. Søren’s instructions for blogging on this site were minimal: David and I can write what we see fit, as long as it’s not libellous. I […]