What actually happens when you ask for evidence?
I’ve been Asking for Evidence for a couple of months now and it’s interesting how organisations respond to it. I’ve had an array of responses: Polite but dismissive….. First up [...]
I’ve been Asking for Evidence for a couple of months now and it’s interesting how organisations respond to it. I’ve had an array of responses: Polite but dismissive….. First up [...]
Politicians like to claim a lot of things, from how they’ve reduced unemployment to how they plan on investing in renewable energy, but how prepared are they to provide the [...]
If you haven’t yet signed an online petition yourself, no doubt you’ve seen a few doing the rounds on social media. Their popularity reflects an increasing appetite for engagement in [...]
Flavourings, stabilisers and preservatives are all harmless additives that go into our food to help keep it fresh and tasty. So I started to get rather irritated when a number of [...]
After spotting a piece on the BBC news website which made claims about how cycling can improve your sense of well being I contacted one of the researchers behind the [...]
Following an eye test at Vision Express, I was informed that although my level of myopia had not changed, there was a very small degree of astigmatism in one eye [...]
In a TV advert for an Oral-B toothpaste, Countdown’s Rachel Riley explains that Pro-Expert is a ‘Smart Toothpaste’ because ‘it adapts to the specific issues in your mouth’. According to [...]
I read an article in the Independent about a DNA dating website, Genepartner.com, selling a genetic compatibility test (for $US249) based on the claims that genetic compatibility results in a [...]
When a friend told me that Marks & Spencer had started to sell ‘MRSA resistant’ pyjamas, I decided to look into the claims and find out whether there was any [...]
No one at Trevor Sorbie was able to provide Simon Shears with any scientific reason for calling their shampoo a `detox’ shampoo. When I first came across Trevor Sorbie’s Mg [...]
A couple of years ago, I asked the government whether or not class size affects pupil attainment. I was told that the evidence shows that it does not beyond reception [...]
On London underground advertisements, Vitabiotics claimed that taking their supplements (Wellwoman/Wellman) helped to improve athletic performance to gold-winning standard. I asked Vitabiotics for evidence to back this up. They responded by [...]