I’m doing Race for Life in Epsom on June 30th and I’d like to ask people to sponsor me. http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/tannice Here’s why. In December 2011 my Dad was diagnosed with cancer. It was horrible and scary and I won’t go over the pain and heartache this caused because it’s very personal but suffice to say
Blaming mummy for MMR
When did the heat move from Wakefeld and the media, to parents? On Thursday I saw a tweet asking “what kind of C*** stops their child having the MMR anyway?” I have to say, this kind of switch in dialogue around where blame lies sets my teeth on edge. And there’s a good reason for
Pod Delusion Live at QEDcon 2013
On Saturday I was privileged to not only appear on the Skeptics in the Pub Panel with Sid Rodrigues of London SitP and Michael Marshall of the Merseyside Skeptics society at QEDcon but I was also on a live recording of the Pod Delusion – I think my 4th appearance. Here’s what I said: I
The August SitP Tour
The folks at Edinburgh Skeptics have been organising a skeptics on the fringe festival since 2010 and have seen fit to ask me to do my talk on definitions of autism, interventions, cultural representations and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) on August 22nd, 2012. I’m also booked to speak at Royal Tunbridge Wells Skeptics, Brighton Skeptics
Cervical screening and the quest for informed consent
Cancer screening – a mini rant that turned into a big one. I must declare an interest and a bias here. My father’s had prostate cancer (not found through screening, admittedly) and I had surgery to remove pre-cancerous cells on my cervix last year. My very first screening for cervical cancer found dangerous cells that,
