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Posts from the ‘Bad science’ Category

Another testosterone drug trial for female sexual dysfunction launched

9th November 2012

Dr Petra

TweetRecently Trimel Pharmaceuticals have announced they are enrolling women into a drug trial to test a ‘use as required’ testosterone…

 

 

G-spot discovery, medicalization and media hype

25th April 2012

Dr Petra

TweetThis post focuses on research reported today on the discovery of the g-spot. If you are a journalist on a…

 

 

Responding to Channel 4 on The Joy of Teen Sex

27th June 2011

Dr Petra

TweetYou may remember earlier in the year Channel 4 ran a new series called The Joy of Teen Sex (JOTS)….

 

 

A little bit more on the medicalisation of sex

13th June 2011

Dr Petra

TweetIt’s been a while since I’ve written about medicalisation. Which seems as good an excuse as any to revisit this…

 

 

Unpacking the Bailey Review on Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood

6th June 2011

Dr Petra

TweetToday sees the launch of the Bailey Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood. A copy of the report…

 

 

¼ men worried about the amount of porn they watch online

22nd April 2011

Dr Petra

Radio 1 is the latest media outlet to seemingly stuff up a sex survey.

 

 

Channel 4 sent complaint from practitioners re problem sex broadcasting

9th February 2011

Dr Petra

TweetOver the past few weeks parents, practitioners, young people and journalists have been concerned about the Channel 4 series ‘The…

 

 

“Women with low libidos ‘have different brains’”

29th October 2010

Dr Petra

Tweet * If you ever wanted to see how the media simultaneously loves and destroys stories on sex and science,…

 

 

Celebrating this blog’s fifth birthday!

30th November 2009

Dr Petra

It’s five years since I started blogging. So please put on a party hat, help yourself to some nibbles, and join me for a look back over the past half decade.

 

 

Drinks Company + PR Firm + Enthusiastic Undergraduate = Massive Hangover for Universities

8th November 2009

Dr Petra

PR companies are well known for using ‘fake formula’ to promote products, often involving academics to front them. Now it seems companies are getting students to do this job, which raises a lot of worries for universities that they may not be aware of.