I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (51 page)

also buy more music
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pirates-buy-more-music

the original report
:
http://www.sabip.org.uk/sabip-ciberreport.pdf

called CIBER
:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/

called SABIP
:
http://www.sabip.org.uk/

full CIBER documents
:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/

2004 press release
:
http://www.iprights.com/publications/Alert_156.pdf

by a BBC journalist
:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8073068.stm

Is This a Joke?

Is This a Joke
:
http://www.badscience.net/2009/07/is-this-a-joke/

published a consultation paper
:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2009-dna-database/

EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY

I’d Expect This from UKIP or the
Daily Mail
. Not from a Government Leaflet

I’d Expect This
:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/id-expect-this-from-ukip-or-the-daily-mail-not-from-a-government-leaflet/

For A Stronger NHS
:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_125855.pdf

paper in the
British Journal of Cancer
:
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v101/n2s/full/6605401a.html

we’ve seen this a lot
:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/04/2011/02/why-is-evidence-so-hard-for-politicians/

NHS workforce data
:
http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/010_Workforce/provisionalmonthlyhchsworkforce/Dec10/FINAL_Table_National.xls

NHS Information Centre figures
:
http://www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/nhsworkforce

total number of doctors
:
http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/010_Workforce/nhsstaff9909/NHS_Staff_1999_2009_Master_Table.xls

British Social Attitudes Survey
:
http://www.straightstatistics.org/blog/2011/03/29/kings-fund-rescue-social-attitudes-survey

Question 583
:
http://www.natcen.ac.uk/media/299809/bsa2007questionnaire.pdf

that costs £52
:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book 233725

defies all reason
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/13/andrewlansley-health

Andrew Lansley and His Imaginary Evidence

Andrew Lansley
:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/andrew-lansley-and-his-imaginary-evidence/

NHS in thirty years
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3843.full

few of them properly studied
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3843.full

Kay in 2002
:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1314221/

Greener and Mannion
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7579/1168.full

In 1995 Coulter
:
http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/4/233.abstract

Petchley found
:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2895%2991805-1

‘NHS Operating Framework’
:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyour organisation/Financeandplanning/Planningframework/index.htm

Working from first principles
:
http://www.niesr.ac.uk/event/propper.pdf

evidence on
fixed-price
competition
:
http://nedwards.posterous.com/competition-in-healthcare

death rate from heart attacks
:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360901/

while in the UK
:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmpo/publications/papers/2010/abstract242.html

to take just two things
:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2810%2961231-7

John Appleby
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d566.full

Why Is Evidence So Hard for Politicians?

Why is Evidence
:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/02/why-is-evidence-so-hard-for-politicians/

Last week we saw
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/05/lansley-use-word-evidence

misleading static figures
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d566.full

Paul Burstow has kindly responded
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/08/deconstruction-of-the-nhs-bill?INTCMP=SRCH

gap is closing so rapidly
:
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d566.full

McKee and Nolte
:
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/In-the-Literature/2008/Jan/Measuring-the-Health-of-Nations--Updating-an-Earlier-Analysis.aspx

‘overlooked the impact assessment’
:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_123582.pdf

the four peer-reviewed academic papers
:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1314221, http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7579/1168.extract, http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/4/233.abstract and http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673695918051

Politicians Can Divine Which Policy Works Best by Using Their Special Magic Politician Beam

Politicians Can Divine
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/politicians-can-divine-which-policy-works-best-by-using-their-special-magic-politician-beam/

‘Programme for Government’
:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_187876.pdf

piloted in three cities
:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r184.pdf

drug use is estimated
:
http://www.tdpf.org.uk/MediaNews_Fact ResearchGuide_prisons.htm

Pornography in Hospitals

Pornography in Hospitals
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/09/pornography-in-hospitals/

angry about pornography
:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3129151/Taxpayers-foot-bill-for-donors-porn-on-the-National-Health-Service-says-2020healthorg-report.html

Telegraph
immediately followed suit
:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7988367/NHS-buys-porn-for-sperm-donors.html

Who said pornography was acceptable
:
http://www.2020health.org/research/porn.html

Hemsworth and Galloway
:
http://www.animalreproductionscience.com/article/0378-4320%2879%2990025-3/abstract

not present in rams
:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591%2891%2990138-N

Mader and colleagues
:
http://jas.fass.org/cgi/content/abstract/59/2/294?ijkey=7e44681dab39ded34d438b6638e77eebc54cda3e& keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

Price and colleagues
:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591%2884%2990054-6

Kerruish reported
:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5601%2855%2980049-4

Kilgallon and Simmons
:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1617155/

Zbinden and colleagues
:
http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/137.full

Yamamoto and colleagues
:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0272.2000.tb02877.x/abstract

impossible to ejaculate
:
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/9/2088.abstract

The Power of Ideas

Atheist’s Guide to Christmas
:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007322615?ie=UTF8&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&qid=1260957597&sr=1-1&linkCode=shr&camp=3194&creative=21330&tag=bs0b-21

‘Exams Are Getting Easier’

‘Exams are Getting Easier’
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/exams-are-getting-easier/

‘The Flynn Effect’
:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

‘The Five Decade Challenge’
:
http://www.rsc.org/images/ExamReport_tcm18-139067.pdf

study of just this
:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/about-statistics/ukcemga/work-areas/justice--education-and-children/changes-in-standards-at-gcse-and-a-level.doc

‘Measuring the Mathematics Problem’
:
http://www.engc.org.uk/ecukdocuments/internet/document library/Measuring the Mathematic Problems.pdf

Over There! An Eight-Mile-High Distraction Made of Posh Chocolate

Over There!
:
http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/check-me-out-i-bought-some-posh-chocolate-im-political/

two review papers
:
http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2009/jul/organic

in terms of composition
:
http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/organicreviewappendices.pdf

or health benefits
:
http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/organicreviewreport.pdf

blanket right of reply
:
http://news.google.co.uk/news?ned=uk&hl=en&ncl=d0-fIEkn R_72tGMiU0uORy7OgGBTM&cf=all

Don’t talk about that
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/04/this-ageing-breadhead-guy-is-totally-angry-with-me/

pharmaceutical companies before it
:
http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/cliff-richard-gloria-hunniford-carole-caplin-the-60bn-food-supplement-industry-and-the-quantum-xrroid-dude-refute-a-cochrane-meta-analysis/

example from its press release
:
http://www.soilassociation.org/News/NewsItem/tabid/91/smid/463/ArticleID/97/reftab/57/t/Soil-Association-response-to-the-Food-Standards-Agency-s-Organic-Review/Default.aspx

www.qlif.org
:
http://www.qlif.org/

list of 120 papers
:
http://orgprints.org/view/projects/eu_qlif.html

immune parameters in rat
:
http://orgprints.org/12653/

Salmonella Infection Level
:
http://orgprints.org/13728/

As Far as I Understand Thinktanks …

As Far as I
:
http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/707/

Meaningful Debates Need Clear Information

Meaningful Debates
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/557/

in the
Independent
:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3084306.ece

and the
Telegraph
:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/15/nabortion115.xml

on Channel 4
:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/abortion+limit+row+looming/924147

anything to declare
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/15/sciencenews.medicineandhealth

Further references
:

Here is the oral evidence:
www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_committee/scitechfm151007.cfm

Here are the memos, Prof Wyatt’s are the last two in this PDF, and one earlier one:
www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/SDAevidence.pdf

Minority Report

Minority Report
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/

published as an appendix
:
http://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/hc-1045-i-final-abortion-report.pdf

where they talk about me
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/oooooh-im-in-the-minority-report/

on 27 October an article
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/10/557/

DRUGS

A Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz

A Rock of Crack
:
http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/a-rock-of-crack-as-big-as-the-ritz/

Daily Mail
headline
:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html

Facebook Could Raise your Risk
:
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/02February/Pages/Facebookhealthstudy.aspx

said the
Guardian
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/18/taliban-british-troops-drugs