Headlines asserting that hospital admissions attributable to alcohol have doubled since 2004 to over a million a year could soon be just a nasty memory.

It’s easy to mock social scientists, but sometimes they do lay themselves open to it.

There is a member’s debate at 5.30 pm today in the Scottish Parliament, on a motion proposed by Scottish Nationalist MSP James Dornan, (pictured) the  member for Glasgow Cathcart.

If there’s a charity more careless in its use of statistics than Alcohol Concern, I’d like to know of it.

A press release from the Association of Chief Police Officers attracted a lot of attention this morning.

Straight Statistics frequently focuses on statistical claims that are too bad to be true – but today there’s one that’s almost too good to be true.