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Tag Archives: House of Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology

Act to prevent Tredinnick becoming Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee for Health – again

June 9, 2015by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

It is now a year since the resignation of Stephen Dorrell as Chair of the Commons Select Committee for Health. I was concerned to read then that one of the ‘primary contenders‘ as his replacement was […]

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Free expression, Politics, Quackery, Science

Tweeting Tredinnick’s testimonies

May 3, 2015by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

A compendium of (the unedited version of) recently tweeted quotes of David Tredinnick, MP for Bosworth, with links to sources (and correction of one or two date typos, which are […]

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Free expression, Politics, Pseudoscience, Quackery, Science

A Twitter on homeopathy

April 23, 2015by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

At the tail end of this last World Homeopathy Awareness Week, during which I at last got myself onto Twitter, and been having my fish-‘n’-chips’-wrapping-paper’s worth of input here and […]

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The Tredinnick Files

April 10, 2015by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

  The Tredinnick Files       

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Source: http://prndi.org/post/get-edit-your-editing

Being clear on Tredinnick

March 4, 2015by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

Here is the text of an article submitted to a newspaper, the locality of which encompasses the constituency of David Tredinnick MP: David Tredinnick, MP for Bosworth, frequently takes opportunity […]

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‘Minister for Quackery’: Tredinnick’s continuing folly

February 23, 2015by Lee Turnpenny 2 Comments

Following David Tredinnick’s recent alternative turn in the House of Commons, attention has been given to acquiring the ‘clear evidence that homeopathy is effective in treating autism‘. A Freedom of Information […]

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Free expression, Politics, Pseudoscience, Quackery

Chief Medical Officer tells Tredinnick where he may as well stick homeopathy!

March 16, 2014by Lee Turnpenny 5 Comments

The transcript of oral evidence given during the fourth evidence session of the HoC Select Committee for Science and Technology’s inquiry into antimicrobial resistance is now available. Being of the […]

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Politics, Pseudoscience, Quackery, Science

Tredinnick’s continuing abuse of his membership of the House of Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology

March 3, 2014by Lee Turnpenny Leave a comment

He just cannot help himself. During the fourth evidence session of the House of Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology’s inquiry into antimicrobial resistance last week, David Tredinnick, quoting […]

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