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The Science of Climate Denialism
In a previous posting, I argued that it is important for everyone to have some understanding of climate science – which is why Medact produced a summary and discussion of the latest UN report about the physical science of climate change. I also questioned the scientific understanding of Owen Paterson, Minister for Environment, Food and…
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If Owen Paterson was your GP, would you look for a new one?
Owen Paterson is the Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and therefore leads on government policy with regards to global warming. But his reaction to the latest report on […]
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Doctors and Drones
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek, co-author of Medact’s Drone report, talks to Carol Anne Grayson.
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BBC Panorama – The Global Fund and Corruption
David McCoy is a public health physician based at Queen Mary University, London. He is also Chair of the Board of Medact. On December 2nd, Panorama – one of the […]
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Tony Waterston: Opening the Black Box on weapons of mass destruction?
Probably, chemical weapons aren’t at the top of most doctors’ minds in the UK. In the Middle East, where they have been used extensively in recent years and most tragically […]
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Blog: Economics – the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the world?
Last December, Richard Horton, Chief Editor of the Lancet, sent out a set of ten tweets asserting that “economics may be the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the world”. It […]
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COP19 So Far – Typhoon Haiyan, corporate capture, and disruptive moves by Japan and Australia
The tone for the19th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19 of the UNFCCC) was set by the Philippines’ lead negotiator, as he spoke […]
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Lessons from Cuba, 50 years on
In late October 1962 Cold War Watchers were horrified by the imminent prospect of global annihilation. John Kennedy, the charismatic but mercurial American President, had over 20,000 nuclear warheads under […]