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Move over tobacco there’s a new bad boy in town..
Tobacco has a rival for being the baddest guy in town. Not alcohol. Not chocolate. Not Fat. It’s sugar ! A report over on the BBC website tells us that Prof Robert Lustig, from California...
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Soviet Style Alcohol Suppression Campaign Called for By Public Health Activists
As someone familiar with cutting edge science and those who work at the frontiers of medical research, I have always been struck by the backward totalitarian nature of public health. In a world in...
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Alcohol is Old News – Minimum Pricing for Digestives is the “Next Logical Step”
Last week witnessed a remarkable low when the leader of a coalition between a party claiming to oppose top down dictatorial government and another claiming to be liberal, announced his support for...
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Médecins sans frontières
Doctors just can’t help trying to save people, it seems. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which brings together the presidents of the Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties and so purports to...
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Public Health Success?
If, as some campaigners would have us believe, obesity is more of a health risk than smoking, the data suggest that 50 years of massive investment in the public health industry have yielded very little...
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Could the increasing popularity of harm reduction products impact cigarette...
Not if the Public Health Industry has its way One obvious failure of the 2006 Health Act is the fact that the much vaunted smoking ban has had no impact on smoking prevalence in the UK. Not that those...
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Is there a scandal brewing or just a big fat lie?
Serious questions are being asked today about Andrew Lansley’s stance on the consultation on the standardised (plain) packaging of tobacco. Before the consultation was announced Health Secretary Andrew...
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Epidemiology – Splitting the atom with a breadknife?
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment” – Ernest Rutherford Statistics are so ingrained in so many aspects of our lives that it is sometimes hard to believe...
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Minimum pricing – policy based evidence
Based on the output of the English media, one could be forgiven for not having noticed that Scottish ministers appear to have shelved minimum alcohol pricing ostensibly due to legal challenges. It will...
View ArticleThe Department of Health is watching you!
Last week a number of bloggers focussed on the dishonest, authoritarian nature of the DoH. This is not news to those who have researched the ethically dubious behaviour of a government department that...
View ArticleNew bounty on smokers helps GPs balance their books
It is coming up to year end for GP practices and that of course means that they will all be diligently filling in reams of paperwork for the DH in order to secure maximum funding via the QOF. In the...
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Smoking ban health miracles
Earlier this year a paper was published in a peer reviewed journal that was so contrived and so flawed that I had hoped it would convince any doubters that the evidence for miraculous immediate health...
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Public health ideologues don’t come cheap
Back in 2009, Dick Puddlecote highlighted a particularly odious piece of behaviour from a member of the “caring” profession who had long before decided that he could make a greater contribution to our...
View ArticleWhat free-at-the-point-of-use Health Care looks like in a Free-Market
My fear of hospitals has been exacerbated lately with the latest stories of cover-ups and bribes. This behaviour may be shocking but it is typical of all socialist industries. The problems facing the...
View ArticleThe Anti-science of the Left & Right
This is a very sad story. This part especially hit home: Not owned by any company, Golden Rice is being developed by a nonprofit group called the International Rice Research Institute with the aim of...
View ArticleHow to Solve the Obesity Crisis!
Replace sugar with cocaine. There. My work here is done… Seriously, though – the Government has been giving huge amounts of free money to the Sugar Industry and the Corn Industry, which produces High...
View ArticleWhy ObamaCare Champions Disgust Me
One of the criticisms that was leveled against me on LDV recently was that I don’t support ObamaCare. No, I do not support ObamaCare. I am ferociously proud of the fact that I do not and have never...
View ArticlePublic health and public opinion
Interesting insight into British attitudes to public health policies going into 2015. Here’s a taster… When asked explicitly whether they believe in personal responsibility or government intervention,...
View ArticleWhat is the truth behind the rise in strokes? Anyone?
News channels are awash today with the latest horror story – that strokes have risen over past 15 years among working-age people. Cue health “experts” and charity spokespeople of various guises...
View ArticleA liberal approach to public services
Perhaps the one thing that politicians of all ideological persuasions can agree on is that running, and funding, public services is a challenge. They tend to disagree about how much funding should be...
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