UK Government Chemist: New broom

Ockham's broom: A new series

Although it is increasingly difficult to gauge what people can be expected to know, it is probably safe to assume that most readers are familiar with Ockham's razor – roughly, the principle whereby gratuitous suppositions are shaved from the interpretation of facts – enunciated by a Franciscan monk, William of Ockham, in the fourteenth century. Ockham's broom is a somewhat more recent conceit, ...

Linking UK Government Data

What does it take to create a web of linked government data? With the launch of data.gov.uk the UK Government has been finding out. This paper sets out the case for using Linked Data standards for publishing open government data and describes some of the benefits. It explains how Linked Data standards uniquely allow governments to publish data responsibly and why responsible data publishing is ...

UK government spells out new plan for NHS in England.

1329 Nigel Hawkes LONDON GP commissioning consortiums in England will be obliged to include two lay members, a hospital specialist, and a nurse on their boards, the government has announced. Their name will be changed from GP or GP led consortiums to “clinical commissioning groups,” and they will be required to meet in public and publish their minutes. To avoid conflicts of interest the nurse a...

John Broom

Big pharma and the UK Government.

15 Wellcome Trust. Death of a serviceman: will a study of a 50-year old death help us safeguard medical ethics in these troubled times? 18 Page WF. Long-term health effects of exposures to sarin and other anticholinesterase chemical warfare agents. Elevated frequency of sister chromatid exchanges of lymphocytes in sarin-exposed victims of the Tokyo disaster 3 years after the event. 21 Abou-Doni...