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Re Ben Goldacre, see: What’s Behind Ben Goldacre? https://www.ageofautism.com/2010/08/whats-behind-ben-goldacre-.html

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Thanks for the link. Note that the Bennett Institute, at which Ben Goldacre is based, is financed by - amongst others - the WHO and the Wellcome Trust. It's well worth having a look through its activities.

https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/funding/

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Thanks for putting all this together.

For more on "Bad Pharma" : https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/exploring-the-true-nature-of-big?

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You're welcome. Note that this is Ben Goldacre's Bennett Institute profile

https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/about-us/ben-goldacre/

And this is a list of the organisations, including the Wellcome Trust, that have funded the Bennett Institute.

https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/funding/

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Very interesting. Summer of '07, I was doing a research project requiring access to the Codex Inscriptionum Latinorum, to be found in very few places worldwide, the Bodleian being among them. So tripped across the pond, staying with daughter and SIL in Botley, walking daily to and from the Bod (as SIL terms it). I'm wondering just how many holders of an Oxford MA, MLitt or (DPhil)--which includes my relatives--took the jab out of love for Alma Mater. [My Bodleian ID card is one of my most precious "vacation souvenirs']

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