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Bias and reporting on the Cervical Cancer Vaccine

August 31st, 2010 · 14 Comments · Uncategorized

Quite a bit of noise this week regarding the HPV vaccination programme. The latest seems to be in The Examiner with a leading public health researcher now claiming she is being misquoted and seeking a published apology from the reporter Today the Examiner published a news article being on a letter to the editor from […]

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When there’s clampers going rogue in your neighbourhood

August 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

who ya going to call?

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How not to conduct a Ministerial visit

August 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

These things are not supposed to happen in modern politics. If a Minister goes to visit a project it is usually squeaky clean with no bad news hidden about it. It seems someone in British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s office didn’t do their homework. Oops Malcolm Tucker (The Press Guru in the The Thick […]

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From the Department of Dodgy Research arís

August 10th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Uncategorized

If it’s the summer it must be time for Peninsula Ireland to publish research and get unquestioning news coverage. For previous episodes of ‘dodgy research getting press coverage syndrome’ please see here here and here . For those of you unaware – the way this works is – Peninsula do research on employment related topic, […]

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Partying for Partnership

July 28th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized

Mary White TD, Minister of State for Equality, Integration and Human Rights sent me and lots of other people an invitation to a party which is happening tomorrow night to mark the passing of legislation for Civil Partnerships. The Party for Partnership is being held upstairs at the Odeon on Harcourt Street. The Odeon is […]

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