regulation

I know this isn't strictly new: in many countries, the energy sector and other industries with a heavy impact on the environment are nationalized. There are, in my opinion, a couple of very good reasons for this: it obviates the need for regulation: the state can simply run the company in an...

You couldn’t make it up. It's taken the US drug regulator to show up the apparent failings of the UK drug regulator (not that homeopathy is a drug): http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/08/fda-raises-serious-concerns-about-uks-nelsons-homeopathics.html More...

Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. writes about capitalism and regulation in the Wall Street Journal I'm not an economist, so this makes no sense to me. Is O'Driscoll saying we should just allow the corporations that have been lying to start telling the truth and that we will achieve this through...

Geithner to Seek Power Over Large U.S. Hedge Funds, Derivatives

There is still time to have your say on how UK pharmacists should be regulated. As you know they are currently regulated more as shopkeepers than as scientists, and can sell health care products which make false claims pretty much with impunity. Boots is among the worst offenders. Go to the...

Excellent article by Dominic Lawson. OK, I admit it, 'twas I who got the letter from Lord Hunt. But I wasn't complaining about psychic treatment on myself, I was asking about regulation. The Lord Hunt quote is such a gem that it's a prominent story in our new book `Healing, Hype or Harm?'. Lots...

I am just writing a short article in response to a hysterical homeopath, who states the following: This is all I have. Can anyone shed light on where this story came from?

The FDA is gearing up to more closely regulate CAM products! PDF file of docket, although it's not the smoothest read ever. Page where you can comment on the docket (until April 30th). Seen via a dieting site, which referenced this Newstarget.com article (outraged, of course). I'm still...

New labelling regulations have been introduced for food products in the UK and they have caused some controversy; http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/foodlabels/trafficlights/ The principle is that the major components of each food are graded according to traffic light colours. So that we can avoid...

Many of you will have heard about the new licensing regulations for homeopathy. The MHRA press release is here. These regs were sneaked in while parliament was in recess, without a debate. Such is the apathy of most MPs that they took no notice. This scandal will not go unchallenged. Sense About...

If anyone is interested, this was the subject of a British medical Journal editorial this week. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7508/62 Apparently, "In the United Kingdom the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is consulting on a proposal for a Herbal...

There has been a lot of press about the agressive speed camera/radar gun campaign against drivers. The amount taken from fines has gone up, and many people just viewed the exercise a a cynical money making exercise. The results are in...

Or more appropriately, lack thereof. Interesting read by an FDA historian on the history and various federal regulations that deal with homeopathy. Answers some of the questions posed in the recent homeopathy wars here... homeopathy regulatory history U.S.

Never mind the fact we also have highest regulation in the nation that costs a bundle, never mind that every other month there is a commission somewhere proving again and again that gouging is a myth, he still comes out and says that. If he gets elected (and I hope he does not), I could just see...