Thursday, 30 April 2015
Dodgy graph of the week
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Consensus Action on Salt's threw their toys out of the pram again yesterday in the BMJ . In short, they got a large reduction in salt le...
Seizing the narrative
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Last year, some researchers from Cardiff University stole headlines from the Office for National Statistics by publishing data of Accident ...
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Are 35% of deaths due to a 'poor diet'?
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Graham MacGregor, the chair of Action on Sugar, is in the BMJ today complaining that the government hasn't compelled food companies to ...
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
More evidence on physical activity and obesity
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Tim Olds has written a nice article about the bogus controversy about whether burning off calories helps people lose weight. People don...
Monday, 27 April 2015
Exercise doesn't help people lose weight?!
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I've started writing for the Spectator blog. My first post went live today and looks at The Dodgy Science Behind the Claim that Exercis...
Price controls: the case of alcohol
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Despite the prominence of the Institute of Economic Affairs in the British Medical Journal 's smear campaign against opponents of minimu...
Sunday, 26 April 2015
Global Forum on Nicotine 2015
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The second annual Global Forum on Nicotine kicks off in Warsaw, Poland on 5 June. I'll be there. Will you? Speakers include Hon Li...
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