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_____ From: David Colquhoun [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 17 July 2007 07:46 To: Recipient list suppressed Subject: New item on DC's improbable science page Wakefield and MMR In a report on the appearance of Andrew Wakefield to face charges of professional misconduct, the BBC news showed graphs of the increase in cases of measles which has followed the fall in MMR vaccination. They reported on the many studies that have shown no link between MMR and autism. And most fascinatingly, they showed a movie of Wakefield's speech at the Mind Institute. http://www.dcscience.net/improbable.html#bbc5 <http://www.dcscience.net/improbable.html#bbc5> BBC: complaints upheld at last After 16 months of hard work by Simon Singh, the BBC have at last admitted that serious mistakes were made in its series on Alternative Medicine. Two of the main complaints were upheld (though several others were not). http://www.dcscience.net/improbable.html#bbc4 <http://www.dcscience.net/improbable.html#bbc4> Note: the page is now large, so it may be necessary to refresh the page to make it jump to the right spot, if your connection is not very fast David If you don't want these occasional reminders, please just send me an email and I'll take you off the list __________________________________ David Colquhoun Dept of Pharmacology University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Phone: (+44) (0)20-7679-3765 Skype: d.colquhoun Fax: (+44) (0)20-7679-7298 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc.html <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc.html> or www.dcsite.org.uk <http://www.dcsite.org.uk/> (Pictures: May 2006 on the Thames, and UCL-Axis of Peace) RSS feeds: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/quack.html#rss <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/quack.html#rss> Graduate school 17-21 July 2006: http://www.grad.ucl.ac.uk/courses/course-details.pht?course_ID=357 <http://www.grad.ucl.ac.uk/courses/course-details.pht?course_ID=357> ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk **********************************************************************