The history of eugenics at UCL: the inquiry report
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The inquiry into UCL’s historical role in eugenics was set up a year ago. Its report was delivered on Friday 28 February 2020.
Nine (the MORE group) of the 16 members of the inquiry commission refused to sign the final report and issued their own recommendations.
The reasons for this lack of consensus included the fact that the final report did not look beyond the 1930s. It failed to deal with the science, and, in particular, it failed to investigate the London Conference on Intelligence, which was one of the reasons the inquiry was set up. That is a topic that I addressed at the time.
Firstly I sh...
Source: DC's goodscience - March 2, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: eugenics UCL Galton inquiry Pearson Penrose Source Type: blogs
The history of eugenics at UCL: the inquiry report
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The inquiry into UCL’s historical role in eugenics was set up a year ago. Its report was delivered on Friday 28 February 2020.
Nine (the MORE group) of the 16 members of the inquiry commission refused to sign the final report and issued their own recommendations.
The reasons for this lack of consensus included the fact that the final report did not look beyond the 1930s. It failed to deal with the science, and, in particular, it failed to investigate the London Conference on Intelligence, which was one of the reasons the inquiry was set up. That is a topic that I addressed at the time.
Firstly I sh...
Source: DC's goodscience - March 2, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: eugenics UCL Galton inquiry Pearson Penrose Source Type: blogs
An interview with Rosi Sexton: polymath
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On Sunday 23 September, we recorded an interview with Rosi Sexton. Ever since I got to know her, I’ve been impressed by her polymathy. She’s a musician, a mathematician and a champion athlete, and now an osteopath: certainly an unusual combination. You can read about her on her Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Sexton.
The video is long and wide-ranging, so I’ll give some bookmarks, in case you don’t want to watch it all. (And please excuse my garish London marathon track suit.)
Rosi recently started to take piano lessons again, after a 20 year break. She plays Chopin in the int...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 22, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
An interview with Rosi Sexton: polymath
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On Sunday 23 September, we recorded an interview with Rosi Sexton. Ever since I got to know her, I’ve been impressed by her polymathy. She’s a musician, a mathematician and a champion athlete, and now an osteopath: certainly an unusual combination. You can read about her on her Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosi_Sexton.
The video is long and wide-ranging, so I’ll give some bookmarks, in case you don’t want to watch it all. (And please excuse my garish London marathon track suit.)
Rosi recently started to take piano lessons again, after a 20 year break. She plays Chopin in the int...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 22, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Bernard L. Ginsborg (1925 – 2018). A tribute.
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If you are not a pharmacologist or physiologist, you may never have heard of Bernard Ginsborg. I first met him in 1960. He was a huge influence on me and a great friend. I’m publishing this here because the Physiological Society has published only a brief obituary.
Bernard with his wife, Andy (Andrina).
You can download the following documents.
Biography written by one of his daughters, Jane Ginsborg.
Bernard’s scientific work, written by Donald H. Jenkinson (who knew him from his time in Bernard Katz’s Department of Biophysics).
A tribute by Randall House, who collaborated with Berna...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 2, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Bernard L. Ginsborg (1925 – 2018). A tribute.
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If you are not a pharmacologist or physiologist, you may never have heard of Bernard Ginsborg. I first met him in 1960. He was a huge influence on me and a great friend. I’m publishing this here because the Physiological Society has published only a brief obituary.
Bernard with his wife, Andy (Andrina).
You can download the following documents.
Biography written by one of his daughters, Jane Ginsborg.
Bernard’s scientific work, written by Donald H. Jenkinson (who knew him from his time in Bernard Katz’s Department of Biophysics).
A tribute by Randall House, who collaborated with Berna...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 2, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Bernard L. Ginsborg (1925 – 2018). A tribute.
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If you are not a pharmacologist or physiologist, you may never have heard of Bernard Ginsborg. I first met him in 1960. He was a huge influence on me and a great friend. I’m publishing this here because the Physiological Society has published only a brief obituary.
Bernard with his wife, Andy (Andrina).
You can download the following documents.
Biography written by one of his daughters, Jane Ginsborg.
Bernard’s scientific work, written by Donald H. Jenkinson (who knew him from jis time in Bernard Katz’s Department of Biophysics).
A tribute by Randall House, who collaborated with Berna...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 2, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Biography Obituary Bernard Ginsborg Source Type: blogs
Eugenics, UCL and freedom of speech
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See also The history of eugenics at UCL: the inquiry report.
On Monday evening (8th January 2018), I got an email from Ben van der Merwe, a UCL student who works as a reporter for the student newspaper, London Student. He said
“Our investigation has found a ring of academic psychologists associated with Richard Lynn’s journal Mankind Quarterly to be holding annual conferences at UCL. This includes the UCL psychologist professor James Thompson”.
He asked me for comment about the “London Conference on Intelligence”. His piece came out on Wednesday 10th January. It was a superb piece of investi...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: ethics eugenics genetics Uncategorized Universities University College London Adam Rutherford Francis Galton James Thompson Karl Pearson Steve Jones Toby Young UCL Source Type: blogs
Eugenics, UCL and freedom of speech
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On Monday evening (8th January 2018), I got an email from Ben van der Merwe, a UCL student who works as a reporter for the student newspaper, London Student. He said
“Our investigation has found a ring of academic psychologists associated with Richard Lynn’s journal Mankind Quarterly to be holding annual conferences at UCL. This includes the UCL psychologist professor James Thompson”.
He asked me for comment about the “London Conference on Intelligence”. His piece came out on Wednesday 10th January. It was a superb piece of investigative journalism. On the same ...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: ethics eugenics genetics Uncategorized Universities University College London Adam Rutherford Francis Galton James Thompson Karl Pearson Steve Jones Toby Young UCL Source Type: blogs
Eugenics, UCL and freedom of speech
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On Monday evening (8th January 2018), I got an email from Ben van der Merwe, a UCL student who works as a reporter for the student newspaper, London Student. He said
“Our investigation has found a ring of academic psychologists associated with Richard Lynn’s journal Mankind Quarterly to be holding annual conferences at UCL. This includes the UCL psychologist professor James Thompson”.
He asked me for comment about the “London Conference on Intelligence”. His piece came out on Wednesday 10th January. It was a superb piece of investigative journalism. On the same ...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: ethics eugenics genetics UCL Universities University College London Adam Rutherford Francis Galton James Thompson Karl Pearson Steve Jones Toby Young Source Type: blogs
Christopher Robin: a sad story
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Today we went to see the film Goodbye Christopher Robin. It was very good. I, like most children, read Pooh books as a child.
Image from Wikipedia
I got interested in their author, A.A. Milne, when I discovered that he’d done a mathematics degree at Cambridge. So had my scientific hero A.V. Hill, and (through twitter) I met AV’s granddaughter, Alison Hill. I learned that AV loved to quote A.A.Milne’s poem, OBE.
O.B.E.
I know a Captain of Industry,
Who made big bombs for the R.F.C.,
And collared a lot of £ s. d.–
And he–thank God!–ha...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 8, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: A.V. Hill AA Milne AV Hill Christopher Robin PTSD Winnie the Pooh Source Type: blogs
Christopher Robin: a sad story
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Today we went to see the film Goodbye Christopher Robin. It was very good. I, like most children, read Pooh books as a child.
Image from Wikipedia
I got interested in their author, A.A. Milne, when I discovered that he’d done a mathematics degree at Cambridge. So had my scientific hero A.V. Hill, and (through twitter) I met AV’s granddaughter, Alison Hill. I learned that AV loved to quote A.A.Milne’s poem, OBE.
O.B.E.
I know a Captain of Industry,
Who made big bombs for the R.F.C.,
And collared a lot of £ s. d.–
And he–thank God!–ha...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 8, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: A.V. Hill AA Milne AV Hill Christopher Robin PTSD Winnie the Pooh Source Type: blogs
Christopher Robin: a sad story
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Today we went to see the film, Goodbye Christopher Robin. It was very good. I, like most children, read Pooh books as a child.
Image from Wikipedia
I got interested in their Author, A.A. Milne, when I discovered that he’d done a mathematics degree at Cambridge. So had my scientific hero A.V. Hill, and (through twitter) I met AV’s granddaughter, Alison Hill. I learned that AV loved to quote A.A.Milne’s poem, OBE.
O.B.E.
I know a Captain of Industry,
Who made big bombs for the R.F.C.,
And collared a lot of £ s. d.–
And he–thank God!–h...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 8, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: A.V. Hill AA Milne AV Hill Christopher Robin PTSD Winnie the Pooh Source Type: blogs
If your baby is crying, what do you do? Stick pins in it
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This piece is almost identical with today’s Spectator Health article.
This week there has been enormously wide coverage in the press for one of the worst papers on acupuncture that I’ve come across. As so often, the paper showed the opposite of what its title and press release, claimed. For another stunning example of this sleight of hand, try Acupuncturists show that acupuncture doesn’t work, but conclude the opposite: journal fails, published in the British Journal of General Practice).
Presumably the wide coverage was a result of the hyped-up press release issued by the journal, BMJ Acu...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 20, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: acupuncture Bad journalism badscience Bait and switch BMJ BMJ Group CAM Dangerous advice evidence false discovery rate honesty Michael Cummings Quackery statistics TCM alternative medicine false positives George Lewith Source Type: blogs
