I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (52 page)

In the
Telegraph
:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/4681443/British-forces-in-Afghanistan-seize-50m-of-heroin-and-kill-20-Taliban.html

MoD press release
:
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/HelicopterborneTroopsStrikeAtTalibansDrugIndustry.htm

chemicals and vats
:
http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/05/14/converting_afghan_opium_into_heroin/3696/

2008 world report
:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2008.pdf

cheap and easy
:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/transform/

wholesale price fallen dramatically
:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2008/WDR2008_Statistical_Annex_Prices.pdf

The Least Surrogate Outcome

The Least Surrogate
:
http://www.badscience.net/2008/04/the-least-surrogate-outcome/

aren’t very informative
:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3552863

or reliable
:
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/129/12/1066?ck=nck

Drugs
: Protecting Families and Communities:
http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/drug-strategy/drug-action-plan-2008-2011?view=Binary

Public Service Agreement Delivery
:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/B/1/pbr_csr07_psa25.pdf

Heroin on Prescription

Berridge, V., Edwards, G. (1981),
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, Harmondsworth: Penguin

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1996 Mar; 31(4): 437–52

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Time Out
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Dorn, N., Baker, O., Seddon, T. (1994), ‘Paying for heroin: estimating the financial cost of acquisitive crime committed by dependent heroin users in England and Wales’, Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (ISDD), London, 1994

European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS, 1996, cited in UNDCP 1997, p. 311

Follett et al., ‘HIV antibody in drug-abusers in the West of Scotland: the Edinburgh connection’,
Lancet
, 1986 i, 446

Gilman, M., Pearson, G., ‘Lifestyles and law enforcement’ in
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Sucht
1994; 5: 325-33 (translated in ‘report of the committee of the health council of the Netherlands’, 1995)

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LIBEL

NMT Is Suing Dr Peter Wilmshurst. So How Trustworthy Is This Company?Let’s Look at Its Website …

NMT is Suing
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/12/nmt-are-suing-dr-wilmshurst-so-how-trustworthy-are-they/

MIST trial was funded
:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1

go to its website
:
http://www.nmtmedical.com/

outcome of MIST trial
:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1

really was negative
:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/short/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.727271v1

a lengthy correction
:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/120/9/e71

2005 NMT report
:
http://www.snl.com/IRWebLinkX/GenPage.aspx?IID=4148066&GKP=202513

restricted by GMC
:
http://webcache.gmc-uk.org/minutesfiles/2063.html

fallen from $20
:
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/dynamic_charting.aspx?selected=NMTI&symbol=NMTI

‘We Are More Possible Than You Can Powerfully Imagine’

Guardian
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jul/29/simon-singh-science-chiropractic-litigation

intending to do good
:
http://ebn.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/10/1/4

British Medical Journal
:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=

web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmj.com%2F&ei=VURwSp3tMMahjAfo282hBQ&usg=AFQjCNFrgA5ACj4Qwf7dYRivBOSsYx2Hrg&sig2=2-JerEf-4W8otKp9mO4J7A

The Times
:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article6426195.ece

Daily Mail
:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1196696/Back-cures-brave-scientist-epic-court-battle-How-Britains-libel-laws-threatening-free-speech.html

Daily Telegraph
:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5442522/Stephen-Fry-and-Ricky-Gervais-defend-science-writer-sued-for-libel.html

Independent
:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/jeremy-laurance-the-libel-laws-that-threaten-to-stifle-scientific-debate-1744810.html

Nature
:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7248/full/459751a.html

Economist
:
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13809291

Times Higher Education
:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=406872&c=1

Sunday Times
:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article6493564.ece

Channel 4
:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/ouch+dr+singh+hits+back/3194057

Wall Street Journal
:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124406714025182743.html

Observer
:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/31/simon-singh-science

British Medical Journal
:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/jul08_4/b2783

international petition
:
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/333

Professor David Colquhorn
:
http://www.dcscience.net/?p=1775

BCA selectively quoting
:
http://layscience.net/node/598

Every stone was turned
:
http://www.layscience.net/node/598

Quackometer
:
http://www.quackometer.net/

APGaylard
:
http://apgaylard.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/plethora-or-paucity-the-bca-and-bedwetting/

Gimplyblog
:
http://gimpyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/the-bca-have-no-evidence-that-chiropractic-can-help-with-ear-infections/

EvidenceMatters
:
http://evidencematters.org/2009/06/18/british-chiropractic-association-and-the-plethora-of-evidence-for-paediatric-asthma/

Dr Petra Boynton
:
http://www.drpetra.co.uk/blog/?p=857

Ministry of Truth
:
http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2009/06/18/examining-the-bcas-plethora-of-evidence/

Holfordwatch
:
http://holfordwatch.info/2009/06/18/british-chiropractic-association-bca-demonstrate-what-evidence-based-medicine-isnt/

Jack of Kent
:
http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2009/06/bcas-worst-day-yet.html

Advertising Standards Authority
:
http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/07/another-asa-win-against-quackery.html

breached the guidelines
:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_46281.htm

individual chiropractors’ claims
:
http://jdc325.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/bassett-chiropractic/

blogger Simon Perry
:
http://adventuresinnonsense.blogspot.com/2009/06/500-chiropractors-reported-to-trading.html

exactly the same thing
:
http://www.zenosblog.com/2009/06/omnibus-complaint-to-general.html

on Quackometer
:
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/06/chiropractors-told-to-take-down-their.html

Science Is About Embracing Your Knockers

Science is About
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/science-is-about-embracing-your-knockers/

Maria Hatzistenfanis
:
http://www.rodial.co.uk/about_maria/marias_profile.aspx

This is her crime
:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/beauty/article-1316454/Rodial-Boob-Job-gel-Cream-increases-bust-size-goes-sale-125.html

do in a checklist
:
http://www.badscience.net/2009/09/how-to-read-articles-about-health-by-dr-alicia-white/

The Return of Dr McKeith

The Return
:
http://www.badscience.net/2010/07/and-then-i-was-incompetently-libelled-by-a-litigious-millionaire/

‘Gillian McKeith’
:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/