Ignore the health scare professionals: you won't die of swine flu
Swine flu is a nasty disease, but no nastier than other strains of influenza. True, it has killed hundreds of people in Mexico (possibly for these reasons); but even there, other variants of 'flu virus...
View ArticleSwine flu: can we have our £1 billion back now, please?
Journalist dies, oinking horribly, after failing to take Swine Flu seriously. That was the title I gave one of my first Telegraph blogs – April 27th 2009 – well aware that I was offering up a...
View ArticleA naked Billie Piper, psychiatric drugs and spilled custard in Downing Street
From Saturday's Daily Telegraph If you want to drive home a message about the effect of psychiatric drugs on society, then persuading Billie Piper to get naked is a good start. That’s what Lucy Prebble...
View ArticleThe silliness of the precautionary principle
The precautionary principle was dreamed up by eco-warriors as a way to thwart wicked corporates. It was always, if you think about it, a slightly silly concept, since it puts people in the impossible...
View ArticleThe drug firm pricing racket is the tip of the iceberg of Big Pharma malpractice
We report this morning on the shocking claim that pharmaceutical companies have been colluding with pharmacies to systematically overcharge the NHS for medicines. The pharma firms appear to have used...
View ArticleWhen drug companies don't publish trials, real people die
You'll often hear claims on adverts for expensive shampoos and skin-care creams that say things like "78 out of 100 users noticed improvement within five days". They're utterly meaningless, of course,...
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