Monthly Archives: May 2009
UPDATED: Snoos.ws, ICUC Moderation, Neal’s Yard and User Generated Content: Epic Fail
It behoves people whose business is social media to set a good example by getting the story right and responding to comments in a timely manner. Continue reading
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Totally Nourish: “Don’t waste your money on supplements”
We were delighted to see Totally Nourish (who sell lots of pills with pictures of Patrick Holford’s face on the bottle, and are lucky enough to have Holford as one of their ‘experts’), advising those on their e-mail mailing list … Continue reading
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Neal’s Yard on Guardian EthicalLiving: you ask, they don’t answer. Will they answer here?
Neal’s Yard were nice enough to agree to feature on the Guardian’s Ethical Living Blog: to answer reader questions. Guardian readers donated thiee time in order to contribute plenty of interesting questions (the comments page on this story runs to … Continue reading
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Dore: poor coordination can “spoil your life”
With their shiny redesigned website, Dore have added some discussion of the symptoms of various learning difficulties. Their discussion of the problems posed by poor coordination is especially…well, I’m struggling to think of a descriptor that’s suitable for a family … Continue reading
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Science So What? So Everything: web stats
Following some discussion of the Science So What? campaign, they have helpfully e-mailed us their web stats – in response to a question that we raised. The stats for the campaign from its 27th January start through to 20th May … Continue reading
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ASA resolve complaint with Totally Nourish
Totally Nourish sells supplements and other ‘health’ products, and has Patrick Holford as one of its two ‘experts’. We were therefore interested to see that they were mentioned on the Advertising Standards Authority website earlier this month (click on the … Continue reading
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Science So What? So Everything: FOIA response
Science So What? So Everything respond to our FOIA request. They make some interesting – but problematic – points. Continue reading
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Science So What? So Everything. Freedom of Information request and blog comment
We have previously posted some criticisms of aspects of the Science So What? So Everything? campaign. Elliot from the campaign has now responded to our guest post on Science: So What and science communication. We are grateful to him for … Continue reading
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Susan Greenfield on bankers and computer games: badly thought out hypothesising
Wired’s science and health coverage is normally pretty good. We were therefore disappointed to see an article by Susan Greenfield: presenting some badly thought out hypothesising, and suggesting an inadequate understanding of a number of complex factors. Greenfield chooses to … Continue reading
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Jerome Burne, Daniel Amen and SPECT scans: “Are you wrecking your brain?”
We were surprised to see Jerome Burne’s article in the Mail, reporting that Daniel G. Amen‘s work: explains how behaviour such as anxiety, anger or impulsiveness could be related to the way specific areas in your brain work.
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