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Certain things are immutable truths. Entertainers will always ‘go for the crotch’ (as someone once delicately put it) when they can’t come up with anything better or more creative to say. And newspapers will always claim that babies are at risk when they have a story so thin that it’s almost no story at all. […]

They call it the ‘obesity paradox’ – the notion that those with a higher BMI seem to live longer. But even this nickname doesn’t really get to grips with what the evidence is saying. In the news this week is a book called Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense by Dr […]

Are you sitting comfortably? Well maybe you shouldn’t be. One of the very first articles we published on this site had to do with the damaging effect that sitting for long periods of time had on health and wellbeing. We were kind of a lone voice on this issue then. But since that time there […]

“Vaccine will cure diabetes.” You have to admit it is a catchy headline. But like most headlines it was a shiny attention-grabbing balloon for the masses rather than a statement of fact. This week most of the newspapers ran the same story which was actually about the launch of a research product to test a […]

Genetically modified food has been widely publicised as way to feed the world – but could eating it just make our ‘eating problems’ worse? Since it has been shown GMOs don’t increase yields or make food more nutritious, and in fact may even contain higher residues of harmful pesticides, the mythology of feeding the world […]

It is impossible to talk about health these days without talking about how our environment plays into many modern health problems. As a consequence we spend a lot of time on ‘chemical watch’ – keeping abreast of studies and media reports on industrial chemicals that find their ways into our lives and our bodies. In […]

GMO media-watchers will know that very recently there has been a biotech PR onslaught, the goal of which is to juxtapose the words ‘GMOs’ and ‘safe’ in such a way they the two concepts become ‘normalised’ as being associated with one another. Nothing could be further from the truth and we must do all we […]

A week ago the European Parliament voted on legislation that was largely publicised as a GMO ‘opt out’. The pro-GM lobby and biotech spin was that the new legislation would give Member States that did not wish to plant GMOs the option to remain GM-free. There’s been a lot of disingenuous hand-wringing about how this […]

Today the European Parliament debated then voted on a controversial Directive that would allow individual Member States to ban cultivation of genetically modified organisms on their territories even when the crop is authorised at EU level. While some may think this is a good thing, in fact the flawed and deeply compromised Directive, which was […]

It was a slow news day. You could tell because of the headline “Miranda gets her man” which graced a couple of the newspapers. The reference was to the fate of the lead character in the denouement of a TV comedy show. The other headline was both more interesting and more revealing of the conventional medicine […]