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Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre Wins Orwellian Prize for Journalistic...
Two years ago Oxford University neuroscientist Prof. Dorothy Bishop established the Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation for the worst misrepresentation of a scientific article in a...
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How to construct a bogus survey
Statistics are often used by newspapers as the basis for a story. People are far more likely to agree with you if you tell them that they are on the side of the majority. This is why bogus statistics...
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A Failure of Police Intelligence?
Last night I was made aware by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition that the Harborough Mail this week claimed to communicate the following statement from Northamptonshire (Corby) Police: Police are...
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Fact Checking The Great Drugs Debate
This week a number of big names (and Peter Hitchens) joined for a marathon debate on the motion that “it’s time to end the war on drugs”. Those debating included: Juan Manuel Santos (current...
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Obama’s Personal Cannabis Policies: Interception and Total Absorption
News broke yesterday that while smoking cannabis himself, Barack Obama observed somewhat different rules to the ones that the US population suffer. According to the leaked pages of a soon to be...
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“The best evidence based advice to help cannabis smokers look after their...
A letter from Prof. David Nutt, former leading scientific advisor on drugs to the UK government, sacked for providing unbiased evidence based advice on drugs. Printed in today's Metro The wise advice...
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The USA Bans 26 Drugs Including 2C* Family, Mephedrone, MDPV and Synthetic...
Update: Post mortem has confirmed that the Miami cannibal was not high on bath salts, LSD or synthetic cannabinoids. The USA yesterday booted a host of previously unregulated drugs in to the “schedule...
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Two Major Reports Slamming The Drug War Released in One Day
Two reports have been published today, both describing in exquisite detail the havoc reaped by the war on drugs. The first, by the multi-national anti-drug-war organisation Count The Costs, preempts...
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The largest ever study in to drug harms places alcohol in the top four
Alcohol is the fourth most dangerous drug after heroin, crack and crystal meth and the second most damaging to society, according to a study published today in the British Medical Journal (PDF). It is...
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The world’s most prolific cannabis dealer and a right wing columnist debate...
Just over a month ago I attended a debate (at Bristol Festival of Ideas) between Howard Marks, the man who at one point was the world’s most prolific cannabis dealer – importing hundreds of tons of...
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