‘Is ‘cloning’ mad, bad and dangerous?’ – an argument revisited
Six years ago, to mark the then tenth anniversary of the announcement of the birth of the folkloric Dolly the sheep, and in the still reverberating wake of the South […]
Category Archives: Science
Yet further comment…
(I know at least one reader will be interested in this, thus making it a topic theme worth continuing…) I have of late been banging my head at the ongoing […]
Another comment on BMC Cancer, WDDTY and homeopathy
Well, I don’t know what bugs are at play in the BMC Cancer system. Almost three weeks since submitting the latest re-worked version of my comment (which I append below […]
Medicine: evidence-based versus complementary and alternative
(A variation on some words proffered, but unlikely to see the light of day elsewhere…) . Science is disingenuously misrepresented by those whose agenda rely on contra-scientific promotional tactics, such […]
A cHunt-er on abortion
I’m hardly the first to air a view on this, and what with ground already covered, and a week away (deliberately) incommunicado in The Lake District, I wasn’t going to […]
Sex and the (self-)Pity
Next month I turn quinquagenarian. And try as I might to resist the significance that so many people (confusingly to me) attach to anniversaries with a ’0′ on the end […]
‘No Free School is allowed to teach creationism.’
Further to the recent discussion thread here, I utilised the BHA-provided e-mail facility for expressing concern to Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. And have today received the following […]
(Some) Tarot People
Having recently freely-‘fessed up my Tarot-ic ignorance (and thus mainly homing my criticism toward the presentation of pseudoscientific ‘healing’ techniques), and having had my proboscis-ly-limited worldview assailed by a commenter […]
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