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Load More...Sean Ingle@seaningleDid not know the benefits of testosterone?? Is he really a medic? Not quite sure which med school he went to but I would put some money on them all including something on testosterone in the training.....
Simon Jackson QC insists it is "inconceivable" that former Team Sky doc Richard Freeman did not know about the benefits of testosterone, as he claimed. And he says Freeman's admission that he didn't read the small print of the Wada code on prohibitive methods are "untenable"
Meanwhile the medical tribunal of former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor, Richard Freeman, has just resumed again. Freeman is accused of buying banned testosterone for an unnamed rider. We are expected the GMC's summing up today and Monday. Won't be any new evidence though
David Kernohan@dkernohanAll those hours writing draft subject level submissions and reviewing across the faculty/college!
Subject level TEF must have cost the HE sector a massive amount, only to drop before it was ever really introduced.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/953435/Interim_conclusion_of_review_of_post-18_education_and_funding_print-ready_PDF.pdfSubject TEF is gone.
Danny Allwood@DannyAllwoodThe start of semester hasn't been quite how we'd have liked (again). Our great Biosciences and Chemistry staff are certainly working hard to keep it all going. https://twitter.com/DannyAllwood/status/1351545200997490690
In case you were wondering how long it takes to prepare online teaching, I'm doing a 2-hour session on photoredox catalysis this week and this is day 3 of preparing the material for it...
Forensic fact…
'The dose makes the poison' - ParacelsusYou said… what?
Dr Tom Bassindale on Jamaicans and footballers: how to interpret a single urine sample
3rd Apr 17
Thanks Christiaan, I agree it is a real thing, it looks like China and Mexico have a particular issue, amongst…Christiaan Bartlett on Jamaicans and footballers: how to interpret a single urine sample
3rd Apr 17
The contaminated meat causing clenbuterol positives is a real thing: https://www.wada-ama.org/en/media/news/2011-10/wada-withdraws-cas-appeal-in-case-of-mexican-footballers but as you say this exoneration maybe only possible…Dr Tom Bassindale on Forensic scientists arrested following probe at Manchester toxicology lab
20th Feb 17
Thanks Bob, a useful example for our students of the importance of getting it right or holding your hand up…
study archive
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Drones and Textile Evidence – A guest blog
Posted on September 14, 2017 | No CommentsLast year I supervised a final year student, Alistair Bucknell, for his research project. We decided to look at the use of drones in forensic investigations and any affect they may […] -
Brian Cox and education through the media
Posted on May 8, 2013 | No CommentsI read a very interesting piece in the Guardian today reporting that Brian Cox had urged television chiefs to do more to educate as well as entertain. Can science and particularly forensic science […] -
CSI:Sheffield – the crime scene house
Posted on March 3, 2013 | 7 CommentsPeople walk past the front door of this unassuming red brick terrace house in S1, unaware of what is going on behind closed doors. Little do they know what lies behind […] -
In defence of the forensic science degree
Posted on January 6, 2013 | 17 CommentsI have read some negative comments in the press about forensic science degrees, whilst experiencing a large amount of positive feedback from students. So, why should you study forensic science and what are the pros and cons of it as a degree subject? […] -
Methamphetamine lab children – exposed to drug fumes
Posted on November 25, 2012 | 1 CommentIn New Zealand there is a big methamphetamine problem. In the years from 2000 to 2009 the number of clandestine laboratories found and raided by Police increased from 9 to 135. […] -
Why study Forensic Science? Undergraduates tell all…
Posted on October 29, 2012 | 2 CommentsLast week I decided to have a quick poll amongst my Forensic Science first year students. The academic year is in full swing, the students are settling into life as undergraduates and […]