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Why Huntington’s Disease is so prevalent in the North of Scotland

WEBHuntington’s disease (HD) is a devastating inherited neurodegenerative condition that causes a slow but relentless decline in mental health, thinking processes, …

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How Scotland ranks

WEBLatest analysis by Scottish Government statisticians suggests that, in 2017, Scotland’s GNI per capita was equal to 94.5% of Scottish GDP. This is up from a low of …

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Battling pests and diseases: Scotland’s new plant health centre

WEBThe UK Plant Health Risk Register has over 1000 such pests and pathogens on its list showing just how big the threat is to Scotland. Perhaps our biggest …

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How the first African American doctor fought for women’s rights in

WEBJames McCune Smith was the first African American to receive a medical doctorate from a university. Born in 1813 to a poor South Carolina runaway slave who …

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Scotland's wellbeing: rhetoric and reality

WEBScotland experienced the joint biggest fall (along with Wales) in the Index of Social and Economic Wellbeing – down five places from 16th to joint 21st.. How to …

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David Black, Author at Sceptical Scot

WEBDavid Black. David J Black is an author, playwright, and journalist who lives in Edinburgh. An admirer of sociologist, ecologist, and urban theorist, Sir Patrick Geddes …

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It hurts us all: who can heal Scotland’s health inequality

WEBFay Young is co-editor of Sceptical Scot, a writer and editor with special interest in arts and the environment, both natural and manmade. She is research and …

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The tangled history of Edinburgh St James

WEBSlugging it out on Moultrie’s Hill. Part One: 1786-1950. For the past three years the top end of Leith Street in Edinburgh has bristled with large, brightly-coloured …

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Anne McKechnie and Shelley Buckley

WEBAnne McKechnie is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist, retired from the National Health Service in Scotland after working for most of her career in forensic …

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Scotland's 'addiction to the belt'

WEBWhatever way you look at it Scottish education’s ‘addiction’ to the belt (to quote Ian Jack) was an indictment of the whole system. It institutionalised violence …

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Silence of the weans: why children need outdoor play

WEBActive outdoor play is a biological necessity for long- term physical and mental health. As play has declined, we’ve seen more and more cases of childhood …

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Irish passport to poetry and peace

WEBAnd live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket …

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In my country: a poem for refugee week

WEBIn my country. These poems also seem to touch on that disorienting “here and there” consciousness of strangers in search of home ( Here and There was a …

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We are not amused

WEBIn the past couple of weeks the Queen has been wrong-footed by two of her Prime Ministers. On 19 September there was the disclosure by David Cameron in his …

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US health care is sick

WEBAmerican health care is a racket run by scammers who prey on the sick and the worried. Its health professionals behave like escorts in a hostess bar, prompting …

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Primary care needs urgent support

WEBWelcome to Sceptical Scot, Scotland’s premier non-tribal forum for passionate, informed debate.Sceptical Scot is for all who care about Scotland’s future, …

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Marx, worker power and the gig economy

WEBLike the classic economists of his time, Marx believed in a labour theory of value – the idea that the value of a product should be based on the amount of labour …

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'Realising the ambition' in a time of coronavirus

WEBRealising the Ambition. In mid-February, Education Scotland published Realising the Ambition: Being Me, new practice guidance for all teachers and …

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Raise a glass to truth and Robert Burns

WEBRab I Wish You Knew is a fine toast for a Burns Supper (the last four lines are a direct quote from Here’s a Health to Them That’s Awa). And it will surely raise a …

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