User:JoBrodie

Formerly Public Engagement Co-ordinator on the CHI+MED project at Queen Mary, University of London (since Summer 2011 to Sep 2015), previously based at the UCL Interaction Centre (from January 2010 to Summer 2011) I'm now the same, but for the CS4FN project still at QMUL.

Previously Science Information Officer at Diabetes UK (from November 2003 to June 2012), before that lab scientist

Contact me here, or jo.brodie AT gmail.com or on Twitter @JoBrodie

Interests / pages I moderate

Homeopathy, quackery, skeptical activism, film music, writers / actors, scientists, random ad hoc things I come across

Pages I've created

Film music concerts
List of Twitter traditions
Whole Lotta Sole
Rope worms

Category I created

Autism:Quackery - sadly deleted as deemed too non-WP:NPOV but it felt like a useful category to apply to autism topics for which there is no good evidence as well as to promoters of potentially harmful viewpoints about autism (eg Jenny McCarthy) where those people aren't quacks (delivering 'treatment') themselves. There was a discussion about renaming it to Autism pseudoscience, then about whether or not 'pseudoscience' is just as non-WP:NPOV as 'quackery' and ultimately the category was wiped. As was Category:Quacks (I didn't create that one). Ah well, can't win 'em all :)

Until that point the 'Autism quackery' label had been applied to - Andrew Wakefield, Autism Research Institute, CEASE therapy, Chelation therapy, DoTerra, Miracle Mineral Supplement, MMR vaccine controversy, Rope worms and Vaccine controversies.

I still think it would be useful to have a category that knits these together, but one where it's perhaps not used on living people to avoid some of the charges against the category that came up in the discussion.