Plagiarism hurts
Jul
22
2010
First of all, for blindingly obvious reasons, I should acknowledge that the title of this blog post is not original. “Plagiarism hurts” was the title of an article in EMWA’s journal The Write Stuff by Elise Langdon-Neuner, its editor-in-chief (page 13 of this issue, 1.6 MB pdf). I’m sure that Elise won’t mind me re-using [...]
UK Biobank part 4
Jul
20
2010
For anyone who hasn’t yet read the first 3 parts of this story, they are here, here, and here. Just to recap, my main concern is that the NHS disclosed my confidential data (and the data of about 5 million other people) to the UK Biobank team without my consent.
OK, now we’re all up to [...]
UK Biobank part 3
Jul
14
2010
Readers with a long memory will recall that I blogged about the UK Biobank project back in January (with an update in May), and that at the time I made a Freedom of Information request to try to receive the ethics application form for the study.
By law, public bodies are required to respond to Freedom [...]
Homoeopathy: is it all bad?
Jul
08
2010
There has been much discussion in the blogosphere and the Twittersphere lately about homoeopathy, partly because of some Early Day Motions being put before the British parliament on the subject, and partly because of the BMA’s vote against homoeopathy at their recent conference.
Now, this may come as a surprise to anyone who is familiar with [...]
A rose by any other name…
Jul
06
2010
I sit on a research ethics committee, which for the most part is a fascinating experience. It is always interesting to see what research people want to do, and satisfying when we can help it become more ethical.
However, sometimes I really despair about the way ethics committees are managed. Today, I have received a letter from NRES, [...]
