Subscribe:
RSS feed
Direct link to personal blog: The Fun Police (www.funpolice.eu)
A meal to (never) die for
Clean eating, raw food, paleo, and, I‘d imagine, quite a lot of other such diets and lifestyles seem to be everywhere nowadays; whether it is a friend telling you that you just “have to do this, because…”, or whether it is in twitter, facebook, and tabloid “science updates”. Of course, the most irritating one of these is the […]
Posted in: Public Health
“Being Boris Johnson” An essay on free markets and public health
February 16, 2017
If you live in the UK (or Europe) you may remember that Boris Johnson, always the opportunist, wrote two columns for The Daily Telegraph – one pro- and one anti- Brexit. The plan, of course, was to decide which option would be the most beneficial to ones career and go with that. An alternative explanation […]
Posted in: Public Health
Review of “The Naked Ape”
December 21, 2016
50 years post-publication, I finally read (and reviewed) Desmond Morris’ “The Naked Ape”: http://www.funpolice.eu/index.htm
Posted in: General
New blog post “Epidemiology: a canine intervention”
December 13, 2016
Sometimes, in science, and specifically in epidemiology, all that is needed is a dog’s perspective… …especially when it is about them… Read more my site ‘The FunPolice’ <link> Or direct to article: <link>
Posted in: General, Public Health
Book Review of “Intellectuals and Society”
October 20, 2016
So I read and reviewed “Intellectuals and Society” by the American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author Thomas Sowell. What a waste of time…. More on the Fun Police Website (Link to The Fun Police)
Posted in: General
New blog post “Slinging mud at El Diablo”
October 4, 2016
“Is there Evidence of Adverse Health Effects Near US Nuclear Installations? Infant Mortality in Coastal Communities near The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Station in California, 1989-2012”. ? …Is there…? Read the full story at The Fun Police: link Or directly to the article: link
Posted in: General
Alcohol and “fact”checking in Ireland
September 12, 2016
About a week ago thejournal.ie decided it would be a good idea to ‘FactCheck’ whether minimum unit alcohol pricing was proven to work, because the Irish Health Promotion Minister (Marcella Corcoran Kennedy…apparently) made a claim about this with respect to the Irish government’s alcohol policy. They decided that the best way to go about this […]
Posted in: Public Health
Top Posts & Pages
Sense about Science
May 8, 2017
0