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The BMA, the BMJ, and bicycle helmet policy
The reason I pick up the bicycle helmet theme again this week is that the BMJ is running a sidebar poll of their readers (or, more accurately, of cycling tweeters and recipients of Robert Davis’s...
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How did the BMA get bicycle helmets so wrong?
In 1958, the UK licensed a drug for treating morning sickness. It worked very well. The studies all showed that pregnant women suffering from morning sickness received much relief with the drug. Three...
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Appendix: Bad Science Bingo in the BMA’s “safe cycling” pages
This is just a crude brain dump of a post that comes after the serious series — posts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight. Sorry, I just can’t get over these extraordinary pages on the...
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Won’t somebody please think of the children?
In December 2005, an article of massive importance was published in the British Medical Journal. Doctors counted up the number of children being admitted to A&E with musculoskeletal injuries...
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Smoothing the flow: pushing more kids into cars
We know that Boris Johnson’s fantasy of “smoothing traffic flow” will act as an incentive for people to get into their cars and, even more so, for businesses to move more stuff around. In a city like...
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Pickles peddles pointless parking press release
This week, the Department for Communities and Local Government put out a press release about town centre parking. Unlike last time, they didn’t even have to announce that Pickles is ending The War On...
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In which I have to agree with the ABD
…that remedial lectures are not an appropriate alternative to prosecution for people who use mobile phones while driving. Stopped clocks, and all that. Rather less frequently than twice a day in the...
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Nudge nudge, do you follow me?
Call me a stereotype of the scientist buried in his own irrelevant little world, but it occurred to me that I know far more about how to manipulate the behaviour of transformed cell lines than that of...
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Norman Baker defends evidence-defying policy
Norman Baker, our ever embarrassing Lib Dem Minister for The Bits Of Transport That The Government Doesn’t Care About and part-time conspiracy theorist, pops up in the HoL Sci & Tech Committee...
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A simple question
I like Select Committees. They do a good line in scrutiny, as we’ve seen lately with the Media Select Committee’s hacking enquiry. On tuesday the Transport Select Committee sat to look at road safety,...
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Repost: Pickles peddles pointless parking press release
Not having anything new to post, but having been reminded of this antique scrawl by last week’s Cycling Embassy response to the Department for Communities and Local Government’s consultation on whether...
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