Thalidomide was marketed to pregnant women as an antidote for morning sickness in the late 1950s, but the results were calamitous. An epidemic of babies born with various disabilities including limb, organ and neural damage…
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Academic publishing is a multi-billion pound industry, with profit margins reportedly higher than those of Apple, Google and Amazon. It has always struck me as a racket: academics sign over their work to private businesses…
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Update, September 2026: This post was written in 2019, so some details below have changed. For my 2023 update, see Five new tips for aspiring psychologists. Since then, IAPT has been renamed NHS Talking Therapies,…
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This week I read an editorial by Becker and colleagues (2019) which warned against the dangers of “online solicited content journals”. These predatory journals use academic spam emails to elicit contributions from researchers and are…
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Are reflective practice groups useful for liaison psychiatry nurses? We asked some nurses who had participated in them to find out.
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