http://www.truthwillout.co.uk Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:41:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Becoming a Professor at Exeter University Lately I have been thinking that I might seek to become the U.K.'s first Professor of Fossil Anomalies and I would naturally prefer this post to be established at Exeter University, where you can apparently become a Professor in things you know virtually nothing about.  Most universities, of course, would not ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/03/edzard-ernst-is-a-fake-3/ Recently a couple of contributors to this blog - who have started to take Champix or Chantix themselves and feel fine on it - have commented that the page they are reading here "seems very negative". This is my sixth blog post on Champix/Chantix. I check all comments that come in, and ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/03/chantix-champix-6/ Hurrah for Uncle Edzard Ernst, his merry band of scoffers and the pharmaceutical industry! NHS funding for homoeopathy has been withdrawn they have claimed their first scalp. Now, which CAM therapy shall we pick on next? Which seems - on the face of it - the most ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/03/homeopathy-nhs-funding-withdrawn/ The Addiction Myth   Yes, it is the case that many smokers find it very difficult to give up smoking.  Cravings can drive you up the wall.  Trying to ignore them can make you very irritable or reduce you to tears.  Smokers can sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to obtain tobacco.  ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/02/inconsistencies-in-the-addiction-story/ The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) have blocked an NHS advertising leaflet which claimed that smokers were "twice as likely" to quit with Nicotine Replacement products and "four times as likely" to quit if they also used NHS Stop Smoking Services. For the very first time since the Truth Will Out ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/02/advertising-standards-slam-bogus-nhs-claim/ When Dr Ben Goldacre recently voiced concerns in the British Medical Journal about drug companies 'engineering' drug trials, resulting in what he called "bad evidence, which distorts medical decision-making, and harms patients", we only have to look at the Champix fiasco to see how true that is. But that ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/01/edzard-ernst-is-a-fake-2/ The weird and wonderful internet just threw up another amusing splinter of craziness in the form of an email message, sent through the Truth Will Out Contact Form facility, from a website called ChampixMagic.  It purported to be from a person called Jay, and it said: Jay wrote: Dear sir/webmaster, I am the ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2009/12/chantix-champix-isnt-magic/ President Barack Obama said today: "Where there is inefficiency, where there is corruption, we expect those people to be held accountable." That is a fine democratic principle.  Well said, Mr President.  Of course he was talking about the government of Afghanistan, warning those people that they could not expect continued support ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2009/12/corruption-at-the-department-of-health/ In response to the post Champix Kills, But Don't Tell The Smokers a comment came in from James which raised a number of important points, so I have decided to reproduce it here, along with my response to the points he raised: JAMES on October 27th, 2009 at 7:11 am Said: I ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2009/11/drug-taking-versus-therapy/ This development, I am certain, has nothing whatever to do with the Truth Will Out Campaign, but it is a bit ironic: I've just been invited to become an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine! This is because I am involved - to quote the letter - "in one ... http://www.truthwillout.co.uk/2009/11/on-a-lighter-note/