Health Claims: Let Science Prevail

Whither CPD? Let common sense prevail.

of the ethos of a physician. So why did we feel so threatened when the process was formalised under the title of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)? Was it a fear of the unknown, the sheer burden (boredom perhaps?) of documenting one’s daily educational activities? Or was it the fact that many of us felt that there was no evidence that this documentation would lead to an overall improvem...

Can virtue prevail? Safeguarding integrity in medicine and science.

It might be time to let cooler heads prevail after mild traumatic brain injury or concussion.

Few conditions in medicine have garnered more recent interest in the lay press than mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or concussion. For decades, investigation into the pathobiology and therapy of TBI has often been viewed by the neuroscience community as “too messy to understand” or “lacking a clear relationship between anatomical injury and behavioral consequences” and has been carried out l...

Rejecting knowledge claims inside and outside science.

Citizens, policy-makers and scientists all face the problem of assessing maverick scientific claims. Via a case study, I show the different resources available to experts and non-experts when they make these judgements and reflect upon what this means for technological decision-making in the public domain.

Swedish consumers' cognitive approaches to nutrition claims and health claims

INTRODUCTION AND AIM Studies show frequent use of nutrition claims and health claims in consumers' choice of food products. The aim of the present study was to investigate how consumers' thoughts about these claims and food products are affected by various types of food-related experiences. MATERIAL AND METHODS The data collection comprised 30 individual interviews among Swedish consumers age...