I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (58 page)

Harvard University: Center for Ethics 32

Harwood, Professor John 30–1

Hatzistefanis, Maria 255

HbA1c blood test 120

Health Professional Council 253

Health Select Committee, UK 84

Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) 80, 84–5, 86

Heard, Gerald:
Is Another World Watching?
263

heart attack 8, 9, 79, 119–20, 134–6, 172, 173, 174–6, 209–10, 265

Hegarty LLP 256

Helicobacter pylori
9

hepatitis B 233, 356

hepatitis C 225, 233

heroin, xx, 221–4, 225–44

hierarchies of evidence 359

highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) 140

Hinkley Point 95–6

HIV 182–7, 225, 233–4, 244, 254, 281–3, 284, 285, 286
see also
Aids

Hodgkinson, Neville 283

Holfordwatch 252

Holt, Peter 19

Home Office xix, 157, 158, 159, 163, 193, 230, 232

home taping 159–62

homeopathy xvii, 20–1, 124, 137, 194, 262, 264, 304, 321–4, 389

Homeopathy News
389

homosexuality: age and 92–4; mental illness and 312–13

hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) 8–9

Hospital Episodes Statistics 18

Houben, Rom 324–6

House of Numbers
(film) 281–3, 284

How to be Beautiful
(Murray) 387

HPV 334

Huff, Darrell:
How to Lie with Statistics
89–91

Hussein, Saddam 316–17

Hutton, John 221, 224

hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) 38

IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) 116

ICM 96

ignoring results from people you don’t trust 20–2

Imperial College 285

inclusion body myositis (IBM) 26, 27

Independent External Review for Department of Education on improving use if evidence and data in schools 202
n

Independent
29, 61, 197, 345, 390

Insight Cube™ 154

Institute of Child Health 120

intelligent design 13

International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
: ‘Deconstructing the Evidence-Based Discourse in Health Sciences: Truth, Power and Fascism’ (
International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
) 297

International Journal of Obesity
338

International Journal of Psychology
15–16

internet use, autism and 3

The Internet’s Own Boy
(documentary) 34

Interphone 118

Ioannidis, Professor John 9–10, 132, 133

Ion-Conditioning Hairdryer 388

IQ scores, gradual improvement in 188

Iraq, detecting bombs in 273–5; weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in 316–17

irrationality, science of xxi, 301–26; cigarette packaging 318–21; crime, outrage is lower when a criminal has more victims xxi, 306–9; evidence-based smear campaigns 316–18; facilitated communication in coma patients 324–6; female musicians’ clothing and performance 309–11; illusions of control 305–6; nocebo effect 321–4; pre-existing view, scientific evidence that challenges a 311–13; superstition and improved performance 313–15; visualisation and fruit intake 303–4

IVF 107, 180, 181

Jack of Kent (blogger) 252

Jammeh, Yahya 182

JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) 353

Jill Dando Institute 163

Johnson, Alan 22, 24

Johnston, Lucy 333

Jordan, David Starr:
Higher Foolishness
262

Journal of Aids
139

Journal of Applied Social Psychology
312

Journal of Public Health Nutrition
337

Journal of the American Chemical Society
(
JACS
)
135

Journal of the American Medical Association
(
JAMA
)
11, 12

Journal of Trionic Physics
388

Journal of Wine Research
125

journalism, bad xxi–xxii, 327–67; academic PR, dodgy 358–60; breast cancer and diet 338–40; caveats, hidden 338–40; cervical cancer jab, dangers of 331–4; exercise, weight gain and 335–8; fish oil and concentration 343–7; journalists linking to primary sources 340–2; MMR and 347–58; rape, women’s clothing, alcohol and 329–31; Roger Coghill and ‘the Aids test’ 363–7; suicide and phone masts 363–5; suicide, press coverage of details of 361–3

JSTOR 32–4

Kelsey, Tim 80, 81

Kelvedon Hatch secret nuclear bunker 94

Kemshall, Professor Hazel 158

Kenyon, Paul 289–90

King’s College London: Mobile Phones Research Unit 125

King’s Fund 19, 176

Kirlian photography 387

Krügel, Danie 275–7

Labour Party 59, 150, 155–6, 176, 177

Ladies Home Journal
44

Lancet
118, 121, 140, 145

Lansley, Andrew 171–4

Laureys, Professor Steven 326

Lawrence, Nikki 267

LayScience 252

libel xvii, xx, 245–58; BCA sue Simon Singh 250–4; breast enhancement cream 254–7; Dr Gillian McKeith calls
Bad Science
‘lies’ 257–8; NMT sue Dr Peter Wilmshurst 247–50

libido problems, brain and 37–9

‘Lindsay Syndrome’ 305–6

lipid-lowering drugs 119–20

local council overspending xix, 152–4

‘locked-in syndrome’ 324, 325

Loebner Prize 392

London Raindance Film Festival 284

LSD 230

lucky ball xxi, 314

lung cancer 22, 107–9, 319

Lysenko, Trofim 262–3

McDonnell, Mary 307

McKee, Martin 175–6

McKeith, Gillian xvii, xx, 257–8

McTimoney Chiropractic Association (MCA) 253, 254

Maggiore, Christine 283, 285, 286

Maggiore, Eliza Jane 283, 286

magic boxes xxi, 271–8; ADE 651 273–5; bioresonance 277–8; Krügel missing people locator 275–7

magnetic wine 122–6

Manchester Evening News
155

Manning, Julia 180

Marcus, Adam 134

Marketing Innovations Inc. 21

Martin, Simon 278

masturbation, nasal congestion and 139, 143–6

maths, decline in quality of UK 194–6

MBA California Facial Mask 309

Mbeki, Thabo 185, 285

‘Measuring the Mathematics Problem’ report, Engineering Council 190

Medical Hypotheses
139–46; AIDS denialism 138–41; ‘Down Subjects and Oriental Population Share Several Specific Attitudes and Characteristics’ article 139, 141–3; masturbation as a treatment for nasal congestion, articles discussing benefits and side effects of 139, 143–6

Medical Research Council 252

Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority, The 321–2

Medline 125, 141

Melville, Caspar 281, 283

Merck 333

meta-analysis 235, 304, 359, 401

methadone 227–9, 231, 234–43

Metro
37–8, 66–7

MI5 52

microfinance 204–5

miniature steam railways xxii, 379–81

Ministry of Defence (MoD) 221–3

MinistryofTruth 252

‘Miracle Mineral Solution’ 12

MIT 32–3

MMR jab 85, 304; Bad Science column manifesto and 399;
Lancet
1998 paper on MMR, autism and bowel problems 145, Lucy Johnston stories on 333; return of scare stories about 347–58

mobile phones: cancer and 116–18, 290; council spending and 153, 154; electrosensitivity and 292; stalking your girlfriend using xxii, 382–3; suicides and phone masts 363–7

Mobile Phones Research Unit, King’s College London 125

Monbiot, George 32

Morgan, Rhys 12

Mozambique 183–4

MRI machines 37–9

MRSA 124

Mullen, Dr Michael 249

Mulrow, Celia 6

multiple sclerosis 356

Munro, Professor Geoffrey 312

Muntoni, Francesco 121

Murray, Dale 274

music piracy xix, 159–62

‘Nanniebots’, search for paedophiles and 391–5

nasal congestion, masturbation and 139, 143–6

Nash, Barbara 268–9

National Autistic Society 325

National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research, The 137

National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register 62, 63

National Explosive Engineering Sciences Security Center, Sandia Labs 274

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) 216

Nature Neuroscience
129, 131

Nature Reviews Neuroscience
38

Nazis 22, 23, 262, 300

Nelson, Fraser 284, 285, 286

Nerdydaytrips.com 381

network theory 26–8

neuroscience xix, 37–9, 129, 130–1, 138