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 […]
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Homeopathy, celebrities and advertising
Yesterday, I took myself to the website of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) (primarily for purposes other than those I discuss here and which I won’t go into now, at […]
Human embryonic (knowledge) germ(ination) cells
It has been almost two years since I left the lab, a move precipitated largely by the increasing unlikelihood of further funding to sustain an attritional research battle, wherein I’d […]
‘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 […]
Few does not always mean insignificant
Early in the week, I cut a short news clipping out of i, caught by its headline ‘Cervical cancer tests banned on religious grounds’ (differently titled online), sourced from an […]
Tarot Woman
(or: Foot stamping III) For anyone who visits and reads this blog from time to time, and is familiar with my various disaffections with an apparent ‘black-listing’ by the Leicester […]
Back into view IV (or: Continuing exercises in futility)
In my Inbox this morning, a Jobsite Jobs-by-Email Alert for ‘Post Production Editor’. Money not great, but in (what I remember as) a nicer town than my current residence, so […]
Lee Turnpenny 