Current Posts – 22 Jan 2018

Behind the apparently frivolous disagreement about the benefits of blue top vs green top milk, eggs: good or bad and the merits of marge and butter is a fierce academic debate about whether it is fat in our foods or the infinite supply of carbohydrates that is making us sick and tired.  Dr Verner is in no doubt about which is killing us and the large commercial interests supporting it. [Read more…]

Psychedelic drugs have long been outlawed and associated with the wilder and more dangerous shores of the Sixties. Less familiar is that some psychiatrists believed in their therapeutic potential and ran over 100 studies, many reporting favourable results. Now hallucinatory mind bending is back and brain scans are starting to unravel the secrets of their effects.

The public news about cancer is usually upbeat – new, improved, safe, personalised, targeted treatments coming soon. But in a remarkable series of articles a researcher at Kings College London has been forensically documenting the extensive and largely ignored failings of drugs caused by poor regulation, misinforming patients and collusion between government and industry. [Read more…]