Hello all! As I mentioned in an earlier blogpost, Councillor Woodman promised to write a letter to the Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Dr Tony Jewell. Today I received a copy of the reply. First – the FSA have concluded that MMS is injurious to health and deemed it unsafe under Article 14 of Regulation …
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News from Trading Standards on Bleachgate…
Hello all, At home today, because I’m feeling sick and have a sore throat. However, I have received a letter from Cardiff Trading Standards today about Miracle Mineral Solution. This, I guess, is the response to my council meeting public question where I asked to know what they were doing about it! First off, it …
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Bleachgate: More on MMS in the UK
Hello again all! Well, I’ve been rather busy over the past week. A lot has happened since I last blogged. Last Thursday, I went and listened to the response to my public question to Cardiff Council about Trading Standards and MMS. Thank you to @JohnLDixon for all the help with doing this. The response was …
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More Bleachgate!
Hello everyone! So, since the last post on Bleachgate, a number of exciting developments have happened… Firstly, I’ve been invited to speak at a couple of conferences. More on this closer to the time… I’m also going to be on a radio program, Pythagoras’ Trousers, soon. You can get this in podcast format here. Also, …
Homeopathy in Cardiff
A few weeks ago, I decided to send an email to the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board regarding homeopathy on the NHS. I asked them if they had any information about spending on it, and if they had it, to send it on to me under the FOIA. First response was “We’re not sure, …
Ms. Willott responds…
So, Jenny Willott, Lib Dem MP for Cardiff Central has very promptly replied to my email regarding her signing of the two EDM’s. While I commend her quick response, I’m not sure I agree with everything she says in the letter. Dear Mr Morgan, Thank you for your email about homeopathy and the EDMs which …
Dear Ms. Willott
As those of you who follow me on Twitter might have seen, I discovered that my local MP, Lib Dem Jenny Willott, had signed disgraced MP David Tredinnick’s Early Day Motion 908. The one where he says he disagrees with the SciTech Committee’s Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy and that instead, we should be listening to …
Mini-bonus-HowTo blogpost: NoFollow
For those of you also writing blogs, you might also want to link to dubious websites, but not increase their Google-ability. Google works by indexing the internet for links. This generates a PageRank for a page. The higher it’s PageRank, the higher it shows in results. OK, it’s more complicated than that, but it’s the …
Bleachgate: The Response
Wow. What just happened? I think Bleachgate went viral. So far, I have received loads of messages of support from folks including Ben Goldacre (@BenGoldacre), Simon Singh (@SLSingh), Tom Chivers (@TomChivers) and John Dixon (@JohnLDixon). I’ve done interviews for The Pod Delusion and Skeptics Guide to the Universe, and a video production company in Yorkshire …