Tredinnick’s confirmation bias
The transcript of the second evidence session of the Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology’s inquiry into Antimicrobial resistance is now available. I edit and compile here contributions to […]
Category Archives: Politics
The untenability of Tredinnick’s membership of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
According to its pages on the Parliament website, the role of the Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology is: ‘… to ensure that Government policy and decision-making are based […]
Baroness Warsi: political patsy?
You can’t keep a good zombie argument down, it seems. The grandiosely but confusingly titled Baroness Warsi, ‘Senior Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister for […]
George and Pete go to Parliament
Four years ago, during the House of Commons Science and Technology Sub-Committee’s Evidence Check on Homeopathy, Dr. Peter Fisher of the (then named) Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, in response to […]
Cristina clear
Sighhhh… This blogging malarkey. What’s the point, eh? The internet is super-saturated with the ‘sound’ of nutters ‘talking’ to themselves in public, under the delusion that they have something to […]
Usury: on the relative ethical acceptability of…
We might sympathise with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s embarrassment and irritation at (the revelation of) the Church of England’s (in-adherence to its own) investment policies. Except it has been here […]
Mitochondrial replacement and the ‘slippery slope’ trope
Ethical arguments are conveniently bracketed under the ‘Slippery Slope’ trope when their empirical and logical predictions are summarily of the form: ‘Acceptance and moral justification of X will inevitably lead […]
King burgers
… and this morning Osborne said, “I was working late on a speech and I had a hamburger and the world is now talking about it.” Is that perhaps because […]
Lee Turnpenny 