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List of works by Bruce Charlton

A book of ideas collected from Medical Hypotheses: Death can be cured by Roger Dobson

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A model for self-treatment of four sub-types of symptomatic 'depression' using non-prescription agents: neuroticism (anxiety and emotional instability); malaise (fatigue and painful symptoms); demotivation (anhedonia) and seasonal affective disorder

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A persistent outbreak of ulcerative enteritis in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus).

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After science: has the tradition been broken?

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Alienation, recovered animism and altered states of consciousness

scientific article published on 4 December 2006

An archaic training system.

scientific article published in July 1991

An evolutionary cosmology for scientists--and the modern world in general

scientific article published on 20 June 2007

Are you an honest scientist? Truthfulness in science should be an iron law, not a vague aspiration.

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Boom or bubble? Is medical research thriving or about to crash?

scientific article published on 19 October 2005

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: is the bubble due to burst for medical research funding?

scientific article published on July 2004

Clever sillies: why high IQ people tend to be deficient in common sense

scientific article published on 4 September 2009

Commentary on Sweeney & Kernick (2002), Clinical evaluation: constructing a new model for post-normal medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 8, 131-138

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Conflicts of interest in medical science: peer usage, peer review and 'CoI consultancy'.

scientific article published on January 2004

Conventional and future diagnostics for avian influenza

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

Covert drug dependence should be the null hypothesis for explaining drug-withdrawal-induced clinical deterioration: the necessity for placebo versus drug withdrawal trials on normal control subjects

scientific article published on 12 March 2010

Crick's gossip test and Watson's boredom principle: A pseudo-mathematical analysis of effort in scientific research

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Democratic deficit and communication hyper-inflation in health care systems

scientific article published in August 2002

Despite their inevitable conflicts--science, religion and New Age spirituality are essentially compatible and complementary activities

scientific article published on 15 May 2006

Down-shifting among top UK scientists? - the decline of 'revolutionary science' and the rise of 'normal science' in the UK compared with the USA.

scientific article published on 28 January 2008

Electroshock in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance--fictional, not factual

scientific article published on 7 February 2009

European science must embrace modernization

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

False, trivial, obvious: why new and revolutionary theories are typically disrespected

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

Figureheads, ghost-writers and pseudonymous quant bloggers: the recent evolution of authorship in science publishing

scientific article published on 27 August 2008

First a hero of science and now a martyr to science: the James Watson Affair - political correctness crushes free scientific communication

scientific article published on 16 April 2008

First and second things, and the operations of conscience in science

scientific article published on 5 September 2009

Five futures for academic medicine: specialised professional research system of "pure" medical science is needed

scientific article published on September 2005

From Nutty Professor to Buddy Love--Personality types in modern science

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

Fundamental deficiencies in the megatrial methodology

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Genospirituality: genetic engineering for spiritual and religious enhancement

scientific article published on 7 September 2008

Globalization in science education: an inevitable and beneficial trend

scientific article published in January 2006

Health equity for all: Capitalism is a force for good

scientific article published on September 2007

Health promotion: time for a new philosophy?

Health vs. disease: a commentary on 'The rationale of value-laden medicine' (Kottow 2002; Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 8, 77-84).

scientific article published in February 2003

Historical, Spatial, Temporal, and Time-Space Epidemiology of Very Virulent Infectious Bursal Disease in California: A Retrospective Study 2008–2011

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

How can the English-language scientific literature be made more accessible to non-native speakers? Journals should allow greater use of referenced direct quotations in 'component-oriented' scientific writing

scientific article published on 15 August 2007

How should we rate research? Counting number of publications may be best research performance measure

scientific article published on May 2006

Humane Medicine

Hype and spin in the NHS.

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If 'atypical' neuroleptics did not exist, it wouldn't be necessary to invent them: perverse incentives in drug development, research, marketing and clinical practice

scientific article published on 22 September 2005

Invisible colleges, private patronage and commercial profits versus public goods, government funding and 'crowding-out': Terence Kealey on the motivations and incentives driving science.

scientific article published in November 2008

Jacob Bronowski's principle of tolerance

scientific article published on 27 August 2007

Knowledge first, critique later: why it is a mistake for science education to encourage junior students to discuss, challenge and debate scientific knowledge

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Lectures are such an effective teaching method because they exploit evolved human psychology to improve learning

scientific article published in September 2006

Mavericks versus team players: the trade-off between shared glory and making a personal contribution

scientific article published on 3 June 2008

Measuring revolutionary biomedical science 1992-2006 using Nobel prizes, Lasker (clinical medicine) awards and Gairdner awards (NLG metric).

scientific article published on 5 February 2007

Medical Hypotheses 2006 impact factor rises to 1.3--a vindication of the 'editorial review' system for revolutionary science

scientific article published on 15 August 2007

Medicine and the space odyssey

scientific article published on 19 January 2006

Mega-prizes in medicine: big cash awards may stimulate useful and rapid therapeutic innovation

scientific article published on 18 October 2006

Modernizing UK health services: 'short-sharp-shock' reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine

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Participants in research: routine extrapolation of randomised controlled trials is absurd

scientific article published in July 2005

Pioneering studies of IQ by G.H. Thomson and J.F. Duff--an example of established knowledge subsequently 'hidden in plain sight'.

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Plagiarism of online material may be proven using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (archive.org).

scientific article published on 28 August 2009

Psychological neoteny and higher education: associations with delayed parenthood

scientific article published on 18 April 2007

Reflections on a scientific paper of 1926 by the medical 'Inkling' Robert Emlyn 'Humphrey' Havard (1901-1985)

scientific article (publication date: June 2009)

Replacing education with psychometrics: how learning about IQ almost-completely changed my mind about education

scientific article published on 9 May 2009

Science as a general education: Conceptual science should constitute the compulsory core of multi-disciplinary undergraduate degrees

scientific article published on 20 December 2005

Science school and culture school: improving the efficiency of high school science teaching in a system of mass science education

scientific article published on 6 March 2006

Scientific discovery, peak experiences and the Col-oh-nell Flastratus! phenomenon

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Scientific life should be measured in seven year units

scientific article published on 9 March 2006

Scientometric identification of elite 'revolutionary science' research institutions by analysis of trends in Nobel prizes 1947-2006.

scientific article published on 17 January 2007

Self-management and pregnancy--safe interventions for panic, phobia and other anxiety-disorders might include over-the-counter (OTC) 'SSRI' antihistamines such as diphenhydramine and chlorpheniramine

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Self-management of psychiatric symptoms using over-the-counter (OTC) psychopharmacology: the S-DTM therapeutic model--Self-diagnosis, self-treatment, self-monitoring

scientific article (publication date: 2005)

Sex ratios in the most-selective elite US undergraduate colleges and universities are consistent with the hypothesis that modern educational systems increasingly select for conscientious personality compared with intelligence

scientific article published on 14 April 2009

Sexual ethics in psychiatry ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1993

Spatial distribution of free-of-charge pathology submissions to the California Animal Health and Food Safety laboratories during the exotic Newcastle outbreak in 2002-2003.

scientific article published in March 2009

Stimulating revolutionary science with mega-cash prizes

scientific article published in January 2008

Stories of sickness

Surveillance of Salmonella Enteritidis in Layer Houses: A Retrospective Comparison of the Food and Drug Administration's Egg Safety Rule (2010–2011) and the California Egg Quality Assurance Program (2007–2011)

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

The Healing Arts

The Neurological Boundaries of Reality

The Sleep Elaboration-Awake Pruning (SEAP) theory of memory: long term memories grow in complexity during sleep and undergo selection while awake. Clinical, psychopharmacological and creative implications

scientific article published on 5 April 2009

The Zombie science of evidence-based medicine: a personal retrospective. A commentary on Djulbegovic, B., Guyatt, G. H. & Ashcroft, R. E. (2009). Cancer Control, 16, 158-168.

scientific article published in December 2009

The busy shall inherit the earth: the evolution from 'hard work' to 'busyness' in modern science and society

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The cancer of bureaucracy: how it will destroy science, medicine, education; and eventually everything else

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The future of 'pure' medical science: the need for a new specialist professional research system

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

The last genius? -- reflections on the death of Francis Crick

scientific article published in January 2004

The need for a new specialist professional research system of "pure" medical science

scientific article

The paradox of the modern mass media: probably the major source of social cohesion in liberal democracies, even though its content is often socially divisive

scientific article published on 30 March 2006

The rise of the boy-genius: psychological neoteny, science and modern life

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The vital role of transcendental truth in science

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Theory of mind and the "somatic marker mechanism" (SMM)

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Treating unhappiness--society needs palliative psychopharmacology

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

WITHDRAWN: Erratum to "Which are the best nations and institutions for revolutionary science 1987-2006? Analysis using a combined metric of Nobel prizes, Fields medals, Lasker awards and Turing awards (NFLT metric)" [Medical Hypotheses 68 (2007) 119

retracted scientific article published on 27 September 2007

What's in a name?

Which are the best nations and institutions for revolutionary science 1987-2006? Analysis using a combined metric of Nobel prizes, Fields medals, Lasker awards and Turing awards (NFLT metric).

scientific article published on 17 January 2007

Why Medical hypotheses does not publish papers from the field of Alternative healing

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Why are modern scientists so dull? How science selects for perseverance and sociability at the expense of intelligence and creativity

scientific article published on 12 December 2008

Why are women so intelligent? The effect of maternal IQ on childhood mortality may be a relevant evolutionary factor

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Why it is 'better' to be reliable but dumb than smart but slapdash: are intelligence (IQ) and Conscientiousness best regarded as gifts or virtues

scientific article published on 26 July 2009

Why medical research needs a new specialty of 'pure medical science'.

scientific article published on March 2006

Why there should be more science Nobel prizes and laureates - And why proportionate credit should be awarded to institutions

scientific article published on 28 November 2006

Zombie science: a sinister consequence of evaluating scientific theories purely on the basis of enlightened self-interest

scientific article published on 07 July 2008

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