Johnadams

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Date registered: November 30, -0001
URL: http://www.john-adams.co.uk

Latest posts

  1. ISO 31000: the debate warms up — May 7, 2012
  2. Post hoc, trees are dangerous — April 13, 2012
  3. ISO 31000: Dr Rorschach meets Humpty Dumpty — February 22, 2012
  4. What is risk? — January 13, 2012
  5. Thinking Streets — January 8, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. ISO 31000: Dr Rorschach meets Humpty Dumpty — 29 comments
  2. Is God trying to tell us something? — 21 comments
  3. The Cream Buns Act — 13 comments
  4. ISO 31000: the debate warms up — 12 comments
  5. Seat belt legislation and the Isles Report — 9 comments

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Feb
15
2010

Is God trying to tell us something?

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Sir John Houghton thinks so. Former director of the Met Office, former chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and former co-chair of the International Commission on Climate Change he is an influential voice in the global warming debate. He is currently demanding, in a letter to the Observer, an apology from Benny Peiser, …

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Jan
27
2010

Bicycle bombs and the fourth policeman: the Freedom of Information Act

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Faithful followers of this website may recollect an earlier blog, “Bicycle bombs: a further enquiry and a new theory”, in which I called attention to the fact that, despite the absence of evidence that anyone-anywhere-ever had been killed by a pipe bomb disguised as a bicycle, Westminster police were impounding bicycles parked near Whitehall and Parliament …

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Nov
05
2009

Seat belts: another look at the data

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I am grateful for a question posted today by Carsten Jasner in response to an earlier post of mine – Seat belts again. It has prompted another look at the data: “Very interesting! But when the number of car occupant deaths increases while the number of all road user deaths decreases – how can the …

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Oct
28
2009

Moral hazard: bonuses, seat belts and condoms

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(If experiencing problems with IE7, please try Firefox, Opera or Safari) “Moral hazard” is a term that dates back to the 1600s. Until recent times its use has been mostly confined to the insurance industry to refer to behaviour that responds to changes in perceived risk. The industry has noticed that people who have contents …

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Oct
21
2009

Safety Fears Stop Bikes For Africa

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This is one I have to share Found on an excellent website – http://www.copenhagenize.com/ 18 September 2009 “Here’s an appropriate little ‘wedgie’ in the Fear of Cycling series. The Isle of Wight County Press Online [big name for a little paper ] reports that the Hampshire Constabulary has cut off supplying unclaimed stolen bikes to …

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Oct
16
2009

Final open letter to Executive Director of PACTS

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(If experiencing problems with IE7, please try Firefox, Opera or Safari) To Robert Gifford Executive Director, The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety Dear Rob Failing a response, I propose to draw this one-sided correspondence to a close. I believe that I have established: a. that the claim that seat belts have saved 60000 lives …

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Oct
06
2009

Third Open Letter to Executive Director of PACTS

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To Robert Gifford Executive Director, The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety Dear Rob Thank you for sending me a paper claiming that seat belts have saved 57000 lives in the UK between 1983 and 2007.  Is this the source of the 60000 claim posted on  your website in 2008? I have discovered that the …

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Sep
30
2009

Second open letter to Executive Director of PACTS

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To Robert Gifford Executive Director, The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety Dear Rob I’m sorry but I must persist. The power and endurance of the myth that PACTS and RoSPA have built around the seat belt law takes a lot of deconstructing. So long as belief in the efficacy of the law persists it …

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Sep
23
2009

Open letter to Executive Director of PACTS

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To Robert Gifford Executive Director, The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety Dear Rob This claim made over a year ago is still on the PACTS website: “On the 31st January 2008, the 25th anniversary of the law change which made front seatbelt wearing compulsory was celebrated. PACTS itself was set up by Barry Sheerman …

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Sep
22
2009

Seat belts – from the archive

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Now in retirement and culling my files in the process of downsizing I came upon the following letter from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents dated 7 July 1981 shortly before Parliament was to vote on a seat belt law, and encouraging Parliament to vote for the law: “TO ALL MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT …

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