Book Review
The Mesmerist (6.5/10)
In the summer of 1837, a French visitor -
the self-styled Baron Jules Denis Dupotet -
arrived in London to promote an exotic
new idea: mesmerism.
August ‘18 Probably time to
bury it...
I have now looked at the various wild claims thrown
around by the same author about effects of low
dose radiation and a so-called bi-phasic dose-
response association, and have only found errors in
the data, problems with the statistical and
epidemiological analyses, problems with the
inferences made, unsupported wild claims about
enormous risks ignored by “the establishment”, and
now also actual clear evidence of scientific
misconduct.
Guest Blog
A Wry look at dry January
As a native Scot hailing from West of Glasgow, the concept of a “dry January” always seemed like a
far-off ideal! And that was well before ‘dry’ had any association with abstention from alcohol.
