http://www.freedom2choose.info/ News from the Freedom To Choose press office http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1409 21st May 2013. Your caring mental health team: they know what's good for you Last month Freedom2Choose received a distressing telephone call from a patient in a secure unit in a mental health hospital in England. Using a payphone, and being both... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1409 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1408 13th May 2013. F2C warned you last year that the devolution of Public Health to local councils was going to impact severely on freedoms. We also fervently encouraged you to get re-involved locally. What we didn't notice was that a creeping in... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1408 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1407 8th May 2013. Well, we did it! All of us.Together. Not only was legislation on plain packaging dropped from the Queen's Speech this morning - but also legislation on minumum pricing for alcohol - and additionally on what was termed the ... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1407 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1406 12th April 2013. On April 1st 2013, the provision of stop smoking services and campaigns passed from the NHS to local councils. This will mean them spending a considerable amount of taxpayer's money on useless (NRT - Note 1) and dang... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1406 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1405 8th April 2013. Scientists in general and epidemiologists in particular are on trial. At stake are their reputations and their good names. In fact it is far more serious than that: the reputation of higher education is also at risk. The fallout from junk sci... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1405 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1404 3rd April 2013. (This is Tanya's personal story, in her own words.) There have been a number of times when doctors have been proven to be wrong: could this be another case of doctors saying what they are told to say by the powers that be? After g... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1404 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1403 30th March 2013. Yet more policy-led evidence? 'Science has become a political football to be controlled to stage-manage advocacy for a pre-set agenda. We can't afford it to be', says Dave Atherton, as he takes us through a number of examples ... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1403 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1402 8th March 2013. Today we link to a recent essay by Professor John Brignell. It is well worth reading in full. Here are the first two paragraphs: In the dark ages literacy was a secret jealously guarded by the senior clerics. It gave them power in the mono... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1402 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1401 5th March 2013. So, they ignored the consultation, then? Quelle surprise. Story just in from The Guardian. Says will be announced in May. Go to story here. ... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1401 http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1400 4th March 2013. Another article in The Commentator from F2C's Chairman, Dave Atherton; this time, on second-hand smoke. He says: The accusations are that second hand smoke (SHS) leads to “cot death (sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS), a... http://www.freedom2choose.info/news_viewer.php?id=1400