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: Science
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 […]
WDDTY’s ‘inconvenient’ editorial guide to recognising quackery
Over at QuackRag.com there is a blog post entitled ‘The inconvenient truth’. From what I can gather, this article is the reproduced editorial of the latest print edition, which, though […]
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 […]
(de)Romanticising energy
I once heard a careerist biologist opine, in a brief aside whilst delivering a seminar, that the ‘secret of life’ is (cue drum roll…) … the generation of ATP ! […]
Beauty
Concerning, isn’t it, the apparent decline in moth numbers? So, I was very happy when this beauty found its way in through my wide-open window last night: Not as dramatic […]
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 […]
JP II is not ‘Great’
So, they still confer sainthoods? In the twenty-first century? I mean, I thought that was a thing of the past! Surely the Catholic Church has moved on enough to dispense […]
Lee Turnpenny 