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 [...]
I’m a microbiologist by day and DIY queen by night so when I came across wood oil for kitchen work surfaces from Ronseal, claiming it was antibacterial, my curiosity was [...]
The new campaign by Sports England This Girl Can encourages women of all ages in England to get exercising, explaining rather eloquently the simple science of how to lose weight: to get [...]
Do children who play with gadgets really have a "higher risk of autism"? [...]
How often are your bins collected? How many do you have, and what kind of waste goes into each one? What happens to the waste and recycling once it’s been [...]
Hamish Chalmers questions claims that forcing children to read Welsh will harm their education. [...]
Scare stories about air pollution regularly come across journalists’ desks and we get questions about them. Are diesel cars a danger to our health or should we worry more about [...]
“Marry before having kids and you’re less likely to split.” That’s the advice given as a result of a new report by the Marriage Foundation and covered in the Daily Mail and [...]
The Mail Online ran a piece on alcohol and violent crime on 12th February. In the article Andrew Brown, Director of policy at the charity DrugScope was quoted as saying [...]
I spotted a flyer in my local leisure centre which made numerous claims about a super food supplement which can help to overcome many medical conditions. This pill can supposedly [...]
Discerning fact from fiction is always important and especially so around an election when those bidding to take power are after your vote. I investigated a claim by the Conservative [...]
Last week I went along to the Big UK Cycling Debate – the first time the three main parties had taken part in a debate on the future of cycling [...]
"Ask," I say, "it's the best way to hold people to account and show you care about evidence." And then Harry Fletcher-Wood asked me for evidence. Gulp... [...]
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 [...]
