Tag Archives: Simon Chapman

For another view on prostate cancer screening…

September 24, 2009 – 10:48 am

Right now, right around the country, well-meaning community groups, including men’s health groups, are out on the hustings, urging all men of a certain age to be screened for prostate cancer.
There are many potential downsides to such simplistic messages.
You can read more about some of them in this article, published today in the SMH and [...]

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Don’t believe the Nanny-pushers – this is the “must read” report in health

September 2, 2009 – 3:24 pm

It was entirely predictable that yesterday’s launch of the National Preventative Health Strategy – which you can download here in all its glorious weight – would provoke cries of the Nanny State. (In fact I predicted it several weeks ago in this Crikey article which explores something of the history of the term, as well [...]

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DrinkWise – making a splash but is it a bellyflop?

August 24, 2009 – 1:47 pm

DrinkWise, an organisation established by the alcohol industry to promote a “safer drinking culture”, is in the news today over its release of a new education program about teenage drinking.
But probably not for the reasons it would like.
Professor Simon Chapman (a regular Crikey/Croakey contributor) is in the Sydney Morning Herald, calling it: ”classic fox-in-charge-of [...]

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And another thing, Bernard

July 31, 2009 – 1:00 pm

My first reaction when I read Bernard Keane’s critique of prevention, published in Crikey earlier this week, was of irritation. Then I sat back and marshalled my thoughts and arguments. Then I read Simon Chapman’s response, and some of the subsequent discussion on the Crikey website and in other places.
And then I was glad, sort [...]

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