I recently came across an article describing ‘the 4-7-8’ method’: a breathing technique which, it was claimed, could enable insomniacs to get to sleep in less than a minute. It [...]
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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 [...]
As cycling increases in popularity in the UK, media attention is rightly being drawn to cycling accidents and what can be done to reduce them. But much of that focus [...]
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 [...]
The menopause typically begins to affect women around the age of 50 and may be accompanied by a range of symptoms, including hot flushes, vaginal dryness, anxiety and depression. A [...]
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 [...]
Every day in the run up to the election we’ll hear election candidates and political parties making claims about how they’ll change things for the better or how their policies [...]
“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 Independent reported that “Grammar schools contribute to social inequality and lead to a widening of the income gap between rich and poor,” and that “in areas with a grammar school [...]
There are numerous diets around today, some of which provide dodgy and dangerous nutritional claims and sometimes involve consumers buying expensive and unnecessary products – just see the VoYS spoof [...]
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 [...]
Do children who play with gadgets really have a "higher risk of autism"? [...]
I saw an article in The Times looking at whether installing blue lights in railway stations would reduce the number of suicides. The article takes you through scientific evidence that [...]
