Returning briefly to the Letby controversy: a recent letter in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology makes a strong claim that seriously undermines the case against Letby. The authors claim … (View Post)

Self-sorting effects in friendship groups means that the proportion of men who are happy to sexually assault women may be much higher than you realise. Studies that ask young men whether they have en… (View Post)

Yup. Unless you can fix the system that defines the incentives around recruitment and performance nothing will actually change. It’s tempting to think that “replace the system with a bold leader who … (View Post)

To be fair the CS, generations of politicians have encouraged them in this by setting up the bureaucracies that employ all those civil servants that do important things like ensure that a nuclear rea… (View Post)

It seems that ILBC can be picked up by an MRI scan but typically not by a mammogram: Sadly being first detected at stage 4 is very common, both here & in the USA. There was a Parliamentary debate… (View Post)