Ben Goldacre’s excellent badscience<\/a> site has an update on the absurd “trial” (now rechristened an “initiative”) of the effects of fish-oil supplements in Durham schools. His piece starts:<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s clear now that Madeleine Portwood and Dave Ford, the leading figures behind the Durham fish oil “trial”, will be providing us with comedy and teaching opportunities for many years to come. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was no astonishing increase in the GCSE results of those kids who took the fish-oil capsules then? Blimey, what a shock.<\/p>\n

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