Several papers have been quick off the mark to run claims that abortion increases the risk of mental health problems based on a new study by Priscilla Coleman, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University, which has been published this week by the […]

I was, to say the least , slightly perplexed the other day when, according to my internal site stats, a couple of visitors turned up at the Ministry by way of a link from a quack website called Positive Health. I’m getting citations from quacks..? What the hell […]

Nadine Dorries is back on abortion trail yet again, courtesy of as yet unpublished interview with the Guardian in which, if this post on her personal pseudoblog is anything to go by, she’ll once again claim that her views on abortion are based on science rather than religious […]

One of the potential highlights of the summer blockbuster season, if you’re a fan of science fiction, is the upcoming ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes‘, a reboot of the series which will lay the foundations for a new Apes franchise by providing an origin story for […]

If you’re in any doubt at all as what top-notch science blogging looks like then let me direct your attention to three new articles by Orac, Steven Novella and David Gorski, all of which tackle a new paper, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, under […]

Much to my own personal amusement, Peter Saunders has attempted to respond to my recent post on the inane pile of drivel that is the Christian Medical Fellowship’s submission to the RCPsych consultation on its systematic review of the evidence relating to the mental health impact of induced […]

We’ve had to wait a little longer than expected for the publication of the Right To Know campaign’s ‘report’ on a so-called marketing of abortion services by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, largely, I suspect, due to nation’s ongoing obsession with the fall of the House of Murdoch, […]

If you mooch around the science sections of popular news websites this weekend then chances are you’ll encounter something called ‘The Google Effect’. From what I can tell, the BBC’s report started out the headline “Internet is ‘changing our memory'” but have since backed off a little and […]

According to her own pseudoblog, Nadine Dorries is eagerly awaiting the publication of a self-authored article at Comment is Free. I am awaiting something I have written to appear on Comment is Free and will link when it is up. What will eventually appear, once its been thoroughly […]

One of things I’ve been watching out for over the last few weeks has been the response of the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) to the NCCMH/RCPsych consultation on its draft systematic review of the evidence relating to the mental health impact of induced abortion. The CMF has now […]