Mind Hacks

If you’re in London Town Wednesday evening, don’t forget to come along to the Troublemaker’s Fringe, where we’ll be tackling the problems of science journalism and discussing how misleading, dangerous and inaccurate stories keep making the headlines. Hilariously, we’ve already been slagged off by Steve Connor of The Independent who deals out some scorching criticism, [...]

The arguments over the forthcoming revision of the psychiatrists’ diagnostic manual, the DSM-V, have just been heated up again by an unusually acerbic response from the American Psychiatric Association attacking their main critic. The article that condemns the new diagnostic manual committee by ex-DSM chairman Allen Francis’ has just been officially published, alongside an interview [...]

The forthcoming revision of the psychiatrists’ diagnostic manual, the DSM-V, is controversially being written behind closed doors and has already sparked criticisms for its lack of openness to outside scrutiny. So far, critics have managed to raise little more than smoke signals but the tinderbox may well have just been ignited by an article of [...]

Next week the World Conference of Science Journalists will be coming to London. A few of us felt they might not adequately address some of the key problems in their profession, which has deteriorated to the point where they present a serious danger to public health, fail to keep geeks well nourished, and actively undermine [...]