Interesting to note that the Vice Chancellor of Bristol University, Prof Hugh Brady received a Ph D for research in renal physiology.
Never mind the quality, feel the width.
It must be considered surprising that the University of Bristol appears not to show a similar level of concern for actions and behaviours towards...
I had rather hoped that we might have someone here better qualified to comment. It is an idea in evolutionary biology created by Gould and...
We will soon be getting on to the fascinating subject of spandrels.
Thanks for spotting that, I had looked through the thread and seen that some of the recordings had gone.
It is probably worth recording here the fact that @JohnTheJack mentioned elsewhere that the videos of the talk seem to have been disappeared....
There is something in that statement of May 2017 that is niggling me. "We have received confirmation from (the ethics committee) indicating that...
It is interesting to read the above FOI responses in conjunction with the statement dated May 2017 from the university in which the use of the...
I do not think they possess it , but it is a commonly held belief.
Does part of the problem in discussion of this subject come down to ambiguity over what it is that is supposedly doing the "behaving"? One can...
I am interested in the idea of sickness behaviour being purposely designed by evolution. It sounds rather teleological to me.
It seems to be becoming clear that the term "illness behaviour" is strongly associated with ideas of symptoms feigned to obtain secondary gain,...
One has to wonder whether the harassment and threats narrative developed specifically to counter FOI requests: Dealing with vexatious requests...
"Behaviour" seems to be a very malleable word. Sometimes it seems to be used where others might use "symptom", but it seems to imply the...
Is there anyone else?
We seem to be getting a confused and confusing message. On the one hand we have the tales of the wish to emulate the heroic derring-do of her...
at 7.40 "The hair test promised social workers the certainty of science." This states the problem precisely. "Science" is only ever provisional.
This latest statement from Bristol gives a whole new meaning to "approval on the NOD".
One thing that struck me on looking-up some of these illnesses was the periodicity of the recurrence of symptoms. That certainly sounded familiar.
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