A single cluster (or even seven) does not prove a link to phone masts and cancer

The Times has an article today about how a cancer clusters have been identified around mobile phone masts. Quick! Panic! Or don’t. I’m frankly amazed that, even taking into account the general appalling reporting of science in the UK press, that a journalist would fall for that one. The story is about seven , isolated… Continue reading A single cluster (or even seven) does not prove a link to phone masts and cancer

Labour’s hospital grab is somewhat overstated

There appears to be a small nugget of truth to this story, but it has been exaggerated. One does not build a hospital overnight (at least I hope one doesn’t), so the 2005 General Election figures are irrelevant to the number of hospitals built over the last decade. Compared to the 1997 results, the picture… Continue reading Labour’s hospital grab is somewhat overstated