Film quiz - "Match the aircraft to the film it appears in" edition

Yes of course it's a bit niche, what did you expect :)

Below is a table with the films in one order (Number and film column) and the aircraft (Letter and aircraft) in the wrong order. If you were playing along and printed this out then the middle column (Letter) is where you would write the correct letter depending on which aircraft is the correct one. 

Eg if you thought The Silence of the Lambs featured a Thurston TSC-1A Teal you'd write 'C' there. A clue is that you'd be wrong ;)

Answers in the next post which, once I've written it, will be linked here.

A copy of this table is here in this Google Doc (or if you'd like a plain text version here it is as a .tsv [tab separated variables with which you can recreate a spreadsheet for sharing]), and here's my previous 'Film quiz - logos edition' post.

You are welcome to use this quiz round in your own quizzes, no permission needed. (I'd be amazed if anyone wants to though!)

Match the aircraft to the film it's in

Number and film	Letter	Letter and aircraft
1. The Silence of the Lambs		A. Bell UH-1 Iroquois 'Huey' helicopter
2. Jurassic World		B. Supermarine Spitfire
3. The Dam Busters		C. Thurston TSC-1A Teal
4. Quantum of Solace		D. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber
5. Apocalypse Now		E. Boeing 707
6. North By Northwest		F.  Douglas DC-3
7. Independence Day		G. Avro Lancaster B.VII
8. Memphis Belle		H. Grumman F-14 Tomcat
9. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation		I.  Airbus A320-214
10. Airplane!		J. Boeing-Stearman Model 75   PT-17 (Kaydet)
11. The Wicker Man		K. Lockheed C-130 ‘Hercules’
12. Dunkirk		L. Airbus Helicopters H130
13. Top Gun		M. Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary & a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 (Kaydet)
14. Sully: Miracle on the Hudson		N. Airbus A400M Atlas

 

 

 

 

Fortunately NHS England isn't wasting that much money on homeopathy prescriptions now - though still not zero (it's over £20k)

tl;dr - in the last financial year NHS England spent £21,170.37 on 866 homeopathic items. In the last calendar year (2020) it was £28,597.58 on 1,004 items.

For the latest figures there are two files as NHS BSA has made a change to their system - there's now a calendar year version and a financial year version. 

NHS Homeopathy Spend - England 2020-2021 - document 1 of 2 (summary Doc)
NHS Homeopathy Spend - England 2020-2021 - document 2 of 2 (summary Sheet)

Open air cinema screenings in London 2021

https://www.flickr.com/photos/krancien/3044291838/ "Cinema Paradiso" by La Tête Krançien
 

I'm a bit late with this post (usually publish these annually in April) but I have been diligently and enthusiastically collecting film listings of open air screenings taking place in London and adding them to this Google Sheet: http://bit.ly/OpenAirCinemaLondon2021

If you know of one I've missed please let me know.

As of 20 June 2021 there are over 400 films still to come, several free screenings and 220 already done. There are over 200 unique films being screened and some sing-alongs of Grease, Bohemian Rhapsody and The Greatest Showman. There are a few drive-in screenings too (these increased in 2020 in response to the Covid pandemic).

1. Advice for film-goers
   
2. List of film screenings
3. Organisations screening films in London 

1. Advice for film-goers / things to bring

• Before setting off check that the screening is going ahead (weather / pandemic advice)
• Tickets! Make sure you print in advance, or have the e-ticket visible on your device (download / open PDF while you have signal)
• Venue - make sure you know where it actually is (!) and note that the exit may be different from the entrance (particularly in parks). If it's a large park and you're trying to meet people, What3Words may be useful to pinpoint you.
  
• Something warm to wear (even if it's boiling hot in the day it can be surprisingly cool when sitting outside at 10pm)
• Mask - and spare (plus any hand sanitiser and things to keep used / spare masks in)
  
• Something to sit on (plastic bag as a minimum, blanket or cushion better) as you could be sitting on damp grass or hard stone / concrete or pavement. Some organisations let you bring camping chairs, most don't - check (many venues have their own seating anyway, some are just sit where you find a patch of grass / ground - some places hire picnic blankets)
  
• Something to avoid rain (umbrellas are generally a bit of a no-no, I'd recommend a rain hat or those 'pac a mac' rain poncho things - sometimes these are available to hire / buy)
  
• Something to eat and drink (if you're allowed - check) and something to eat it off or out of. Don't forget a bottle opener if you need one. You may be able to buy food onsite (in which case you may not be allowed to bring your own picnic)
• A plastic bag to take away rubbish / and for sitting on grass
  
• A torch - some places are not that well lit, phone's torch is better than nothing 
• Loo roll (public toilets being as they are...)
  
  

2. List of film screenings

This list is as accurate as I can make it but there will always be smaller events that are advertised locally that I may not hear about. Grateful for any tip-offs :)

1. Version for mobile phones (scroll up/down or left/right)

 

2. Wider version for desktop / web (scroll up/down or left/right)

The original embedded sheet was a bit cramped. The embed code didn't include anything for height and width that would let me improve this but I found out where to add it from this post.

3. Organisations screening films in London in 2021
(some may be screening in other cities too)

• Adventure Cinema
• Everyman Summer Love
• Film & Food Fest North London 
• Floating Film Festival
• Hideaway Cinema
• London Bridge City
• Luna Cinema
• Openaire Float-In Cinema
• Pop Up Screens
• Rooftop Cinema at Bar Elba
• Rooftop Film Club
• Silent Summer Screens
• St Dunstan's Festival
• St George's Garrison Church
• Summer Family Festival
• Sundown Cinema
• Sunset Screening Sessions
• The Alfresco Theatre
• The Drive In
• The Islander Festival
• We Do Good Disco

Note that Somerset House is not hosting an open air film festival in 2021.

8 June 2021, 2pm, FREE - Open seminar on a QMUL / EPSRC project (Pambayesian) that blends computer science, Bayesian networks and medicine - with a bit of #scicomm

TL;DR: FREE seminar tomorrow from 14:00 BST on "intelligent medical decision support systems and the underlying technology" with a bit of chat at 4.30pm about outreach which may be of interest for science communicators / public engagement with science folk.

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Tomorrow there's an afternoon seminar to talk about, and to close, the EPSRC-funded Pambayesian project which has recently ended. The project looked at ways of helping doctors and patients make treatment decisions about particular health conditions (the examples under investigation included diabetes in pregnancy (aka gestational diabetes) and rhematoid arthritis) using computer science (specifically Bayesian Networks) to 'weigh' different pieces of ('risk') information. As you can see from the agenda below Bayesian Networks can be used in all sorts of health-decision-making scenarios.

I was involved in helping to produce an issue of our computing magazine for schools (CS4FN, Computer Science For Fun) which talked about Smart Health and included several articles on the Pambayesian project. I wrote a couple of articles myself. It was rather nice to be able to write about diabetes again, as in a previous life I was one of the Science Information Officers at Diabetes UK and wrote nothing but stuff about diabetes back then :-)

My boss Prof Paul Curzon will be speaking about outreach at 4.30pm and you can read the Pambayesian issue of CS4FN as a PDF here (free print copies are already on their way to subscribing UK schools, if you're a teacher please use the purple form here to sign up or invite your child's teacher to sign up). You can also explore the magazine's articles individually on the CS4FN blog.

 

PAMBAYESIAN Project final open seminar: 8 June 2021

When: Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: Zoom

The PAMBAYESIAN (PAtient Managed decision-support using Bayesian networks) is an EPSRC funded project to develop a new generation of intelligent medical decision support systems to help both patients suffering chronic conditions and clinicians treating them.

  Join on 8 June

The project ends on 30 June 2021 and there will be a final project open Seminar that will take place on Zoom on 8th of June 2021 from 14:00 to 17:00. 

You can join the seminar using the following link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85147764196

The event will include presentations on the development of intelligent medical decision support systems and the underlying technology. There will be time for discussion of both the technical issues and future exploitation.

Agenda

2.00-2.10: Prof Norman Fenton: Introduction and overview of the PAMBAYESIAN project

2.10-2.20 Dr William Marsh: Overview of the Bayesian Network (BN) clinical models

2.20 – 3.10 PAMBAYESIAN rheumatoid arthritis application

2.20-2.30 Dr Amy MacBrayne: The clinical perspective

2.30-2.40 Dr Hamit Soyel: User interaction

2.40 –2.50 Ali Fahmi: The BN model

2.50- 3.00 Chris Robson (Living With): Integrating the model into a commercial platform

3.00-3.10 Discussion

3.20- 3.50 PAMBAYESIAN diabetes in pregnancy application

3.20-3.30 Prof Graham Hitman: The clinical perspective

3.30-3.40 Mariana Raniere Neves: The BN model

3.40-3.50 Discussion

3.50 – 4.10 Extensions of PAMBAYESIAN

3.50-4.00 Dr Scott McLachlan: The caremap approach

4.00-4.10 Morghan Hartmann: PAMBAYESIAN additional cases studies - Multiple Sclerosis and Pelvic Floor Syndrome

4.10-4.30 PAMBAYESIAN BN technology

4.10-4.20 Dr Maggie Wang: The dynamic BN modelling challenge

4.20-4.30 Dr Eugene Dementiev: The BN deployment challenge

4.30-4.40 Prof Paul Curzon: PAMBAYESIAN impact and outreach

4.40-5.00 Discussion

More details on PAMBAYESIAN: https://pambayesian.org/

 

A second ASA adjudication in two weeks against misleading marketing from Homeopathy UK

Summary: Homeopathy UK, formerly the British Homeopathic Association (BHA) has had its second (in two weeks) Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) adjudication upheld against its marketing.

Edit 20 May 2021: Les Rose has submitted a Serious Concern to the Association's Trustees about the failure to meet the public benefit requirement of the Charities Act (the Association is registered as a charity). I've also re-arranged bits of the post below and added a Table of Contents for clarity.

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Table of Contents
1. Preamble
2. My ASA complaint
3. Further reading
4. Screenshots (that go with (2))

1. Preamble
On 5 May 2021 I spotted that the ASA had published its rulings including one about Homeopathy UK. As I also had a complaint about Homeopathy UK's website in the pipeline I was a bit puzzled and initially assumed it was mine (until I read and discovered that the complaint was made by the Good Thinking Society) and that mine was next in the queue. 

I didn't know that GTS had put in a complaint, and to be fair I don't think I'd mentioned mine to them either so they happened independently. I see from the statement** put out today by Homeopathy UK that they suspect we're all working together behind the scenes on these complaints but that wasn't the case in this particular instance - I'm not sure if they realise that several people keep an eye on homeopaths' (and homeopathy societies' and associations') websites.

The story has been picked up in The Times (including an opinion piece) and Mail Online. Prof Edzard Ernst has also written about it and it's also in the BMJ (see 3. Further Reading).

Below is my original complaint, I've not included the follow up discussions though as you can read the final output in the adjudication. My complaint didn't mention depression but it's not that unusual that the ASA might add in another concern after looking at the information for themselves. I did mention a page about cancer which has also been taken down - normally that would be referred to Trading Standards but presumably no need for that now it's been removed.

I've deliberately mangled the links that no longer work in the text below - if you want to visit them (all links now point to the main 'conditions' landing page anyway) you'd need to paste them into a browser address bar and delete the ^^.

2. My ASA complaint: relevant screenshots are at the end
Why is the British Homeopathic Association (now known as Homeopathy UK) allowed to have a page on its website listing almost 50 conditions "where homeopathy can help"? https://homeopathy-uk.org/homeopathy/how-homeopathy-helps/conditions 

None of that is true and several of the conditions are quite serious (allergies, asthma, cancer (!), circulatory problems, Crohn's etc). Each of these pages is written by a single author, drawing on their experiences of treating people who have the relevant condition. Of the 4 pages I've viewed in more depth (below) no evidence is offered beyond purely anecdotal. 

I was amazed to see cancer included (https://home^^opathy-uk.or^^g/homeopathy/how-homeopathy-helps/conditions/cancer), given the Cancer Act 1939, but on clicking through the claims are at least a bit softer (not claiming that homeopathy can help directly with cancer) though I think this phrase is concerning "A preparation of Mistletoe would be an example of a complementary medicine which has been shown to stimulate the immune system and when given alongside chemotherapy and radiotherapy can reduce fatigue and improve quality of life" as I don't think that homeopathic levels of mistletoe can do anything. 

Later on that page the author references this rather theatrical example "Along with Mistletoe injections, I also prescribed X-ray 30c on the morning of radiotherapy, along with Belladonna in the afternoon, both of which have been shown in one placebo-controlled trial to reduce the inflam­mation of the skin and deeper tissues that is caused with radiotherapy" - I can only wonder how diluted X-rays are prepared, or what they might be supposed to do. 

The diabetes page (https://home^^opathy-uk.or^^g/homeopathy/how-homeopathy-helps/conditions/diabetes) is also misleading - implying that numbness arising from nerve damage can be 'helped' with hemlock and (hopefully very diluted) lead. This is unlikely to be true. Worse, there is mention of 'helping' infected (leg / foot) ulcers by the application of calendula lotion, or 'helping renal function' with other remedies. 

The page on infertility (https://home^^opathy-uk.or^^g/homeopathy/how-homeopathy-helps/conditions/infertility) seems cruel, implying that homeopathy can help in any way in having a healthy pregnancy. The phrase "I prescribed Tub bov 10M, three tablets in one day, and two months later she missed her period" implies a causal relationship between the remedy and the pregnancy which is probably unwarranted. 

The page on psoriasis (https://home^^opathy-uk.or^^g/homeopathy/how-homeopathy-helps/conditions/psoriasis) suggests that conventional treatment can temporarily suppress the effects of the condition and includes the line that "Some patients are, therefore, looking for a more permanent “cure” for their condition", implying that homeopathy might offer that. I think that's incredibly unlikely and misleading, and I’m not sure that putting ‘cure’ in quotes minimises that. 

Jo

 

3. Further reading

1. Homeopathy site banned from discussing depression (19 May 2021) The Times, Kat Lay
2. Clamp down on bogus science of homeopathy (19 May 2021) The Times, Oliver Kamm
   
3. Homeopathy charity is hit by ad ban after claiming the treatment can be used for depression, diabetes and infertility (19 May 2021) Mail Online, Isabella Nikolic
4. Clamp down on the bogus science of homeopathy (19 May 2021) Edzard Ernst's blog  
5. Homeopathy UK told to take down articles saying remedies can help depression and asthma (20 May 2021) BMJ, Clare Dyer 
6. Re: Homeopathy UK told to take down articles saying remedies can help depression and asthma (21 May 2021) BMJ: Rapid Response, Jo Brodie (me!)
7. ASA to charity: Remove claims homeopathy helps diabetes and asthma (21 May 2021) C+D (Chemist + Druggist), Grace Lewis
   

ASA Adjudications against Homeopathy UK aka British Homeopathic Association 

• ASA Ruling on Homeopathy UK (19 May 2021) - mine 
• ASA Ruling on Homeopathy UK (5 May 2021) - Good Thinking Society's

**Homeopathy UK have shared their "A message from our Chief Executive" statement several times on Twitter (though apparently not on Facebook) and the quote tweets for several of them are rather more critical. If you've been blocked and need to view the tweets in a private window while logged out you won't be able to see them via the Quote Tweet button (it requires login). Ignore that and just paste each link below into the search bar or visit https://twitter.com/explore - this, in essence, shows you mentions of that tweet (logically identical to the quote tweet format).

https://twitter.com/bhahomeopathy/status/1395005017741041671
https://twitter.com/bhahomeopathy/status/1395046861581455362
https://twitter.com/bhahomeopathy/status/1395281901116608515
https://twitter.com/bhahomeopathy/status/1395402698388873226
https://twitter.com/bhahomeopathy/status/1395674487429996546
https://twitter.com/bhahomeopathy/status/1396460917001494532

4. Screenshots (these were attached to my original ASA complaint): 

Homeopathy UK 01 - list of conditions

Homeopathy UK 02 - list of conditions

Homeopathy UK 03 - cancer and diabetes

 Homeopathy UK 04 - infertility and psoriasis