Saturday, 26 September 2015
The stupidest thing I've read all week...
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Possibly all year, in fact. From the Independent ... Efforts to discredit claims that Alzheimer's is infectious is similar to how the m...
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
The Institute of Alcohol Studies' response to Alcohol and the Public Purse
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The UK Temperance Alliance , which these days prefers to be known as the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS), has responded to my IEA repor...
Monday, 21 September 2015
E-cigarettes and the EU: a user's guide
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From May next year, the e-cigarette industry will have to abide by new EU laws that were agreed behind closed doors under the Tobacco Produc...
Saturday, 19 September 2015
Trans fats - a pointless prohibition
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It was reported in the week that a ban on trans fats would save 7,000 lives over five years. Professor Simon Capewell [yes, it's him...
Monday, 14 September 2015
March of the food police
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Via The Guardian - who say that food is getting bigger when it's not - a new front of lifestyle regulation is being well and truly op...
Friday, 11 September 2015
Simple Simon squirms
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The divestment movement is one of the sillier empty gestures to have caught on in recent years. The principle is fiendishly simple: institu...
Does nanny know best?
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Last night, I spoke by video link to Australia's 'Nanny State Inquiry'. These were my opening remarks... My hope is that the ...
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