July 2007 – June 2014

• Act to prevent Tredinnick becoming Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee for Health
• Tredinnick’s continuing abuse of his membership of the House of Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology
• Is the House of Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology sufficiently rigorous?
• The (un)acceptability of pseudoscience in Parliament
• The untenability of Tredinnick’s membership of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
• Comment on the commenting policy at ‘Junk Science’
• WDDTY’s ‘inconvenient’ editorial guide to recognising quackery
• George and Pete go to Parliament
• The pseudoscience of the creator of pseudoscience’s petty petition
• Pseudoscience’s petty petition
• Kinesiology as (not is) CAM
• (de)Romanticising energy
• Mitochondrial replacement and the ‘slippery slope’ trope
• Science and canonisation
• Science Communication surveys
• Worth the effort…?
• ‘Is ‘cloning’ mad, bad and dangerous?’ – an argument revisited
• Grammar and gender
• No such thing as ‘Allopathy’
• Yet further comment…
• Another comment on BMC Cancer, WDDTY and homeopathy
• Libel reform – Lords Amendment 2 reinstated…?
• Libel reform – Lords Amendment 2 rejected
• Pseudoscience Awareness Week
• Libel reform at risk… again
• BMC Cancer, WDDTY and homeopathy: ‘new’ comment
• Libel reform – further update…
• Libel reform – latest…
• Further comment on ‘Comment on protracted moderation of a comment: BMC Cancer, WDDTY and homeopathy’
• Libel reform – Don’t kill the Bill!
• Libel reform – this concerns YOU!
• Libel reform – urgent!
• Comment on protracted moderation of a comment: BMC Cancer, WDDTY and homeopathy
• Libel Reform: Defamation Bill – Third reading: House of Lords… again
• Libel Reform: Defamation Bill – Third reading: House of Lords… today!
• ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ cites paper that demonstrates there is no such thing as homeopathy
• Junking ‘Junk Science?’
• Haled comment
• A few (unoriginal) words on evidence-based versus complementary and alternative medicine
• Ear candling? – don’t be an ass!
• Ever for Never
• Libel reform and the public interest
• ‘Libel reform Bill goes to the Lords’
• Homeopathy, celebrities and advertising III: remit, or not remit?
• Homeopathy, celebrities and advertising II: the ASA loophole?
• Secularism2012
• Sex and the (self-)Pity
• Homeopathy, celebrities and advertising
• Human embryonic (knowledge) germ(ination) cells
• ‘No Free School is allowed to teach creationism.’
• (Some) Tarot People
• Few does not always mean insignificant
• Tarot Woman
• Back into view IV (or: Continuing exercises in futility)
• Bad vibrations… Warier
• Still… Homeopathy Wariness Week
• Homeopathy Wariness Week
• Back into view III
• Support rationalism and free speech in the world’s largest democracy – petition
• Show, don’t tell
• Liable to confusion
• Cardinal logic
• Spreading the reasonable word
• Homeopathy: awareness and wariness
• Support plant scientists facing destruction of their research
• Be sceptical of the merging of faith and science
• The fertile ‘philosophy’ of homeopathy
• Resurrection blues
• [sic] again
• ‘The editor said no [sic], I’m afraid…’
• Boggled minds boggle minds
• Re-invention (or: Words from the street)
• Simple beauty
• So, what’s wrong with this?! – reprise
• Don’t give them what they want
• So, what’s wrong with this?!
• Cupidity Stunt
• Back into view II
• Reminder: Are you ‘free’ on Saturday 11th February?
• Are you ‘free’ on Saturday 11th February?
• Taking care with what you take in
• Querulous querying
• Back into view
• More asinine mandibles
• What is your MP up to? III
• 4thoughtlessness
• Con-summation
• Politics of an embryo
• Progress UK?
• Patently unobvious?
• Dear Dr. Fox,
• Scandal-less
• Imagine a research department within a medical school within a UK university…
• Some musings from the National Secular Society conference
• Sopping?
• Spammed
• What is your MP up to? II
• What is your MP up to?
• Screwy
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: IX
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: VIII
• CrISIS – Creationism In Schools Isn’t Science
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: VII
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: VI
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: V
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: IV
• ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’?
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: III
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: II
• Extracts from a Brazilian (not a Brazilian’s) diary: I(?)
• Getting over it
• Still?/Happy?
• Obfuscation
• Ass Territory
• Out
• Ouzelum Bird
• Opining on Opinionatedness III
• Prior prioritising
• Pumping irony
• Opining on Opinionatedness II
• My World (well, a part of it… today…)
• A case for Coleus fornicans
• Benign Bedlam
• Hope springs eternal (well, for a while at any rate…)
• Unminuted
• Opining on opinionatedness
• ‘Science on Trial’
• Asinine mandibles
• Depressingly informative: Part II (aka Climbing out of one’s inadvertently dug hole)
• Depressingly informative
• Trophic facilitation?
• There may be trouble ahead…
• Margaret
• Synecology II
• Arid Anne
• Scepti-schism
• Feckless scratchings
• Publication ‘Downfall’
• Dis-regulation
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor ?
• Cruise control
• Infantilism
• Peered review
• Social Darwinism in my mailbox?
• Blasphemy Day International… is a campaign… to promote free speech
• Anti-anti-‘Antichrist’
• Shining light
• Deferral mechanism?
• Timely reminders
• ‘In’apt
• Prose-ache
• Is blogging psychotic?
• Dispatch from Salvador (or: Tem remédio para ouvido entupido?)
• Bad attitude?
• The Center for Inquiry Launches Campaign for Free Expression
• Sunday mischief
• Is there not shameful irony in a week wherein…
• Temporal displacement
• Welcome back…
• Marketing reputation vs. reputational marketing
• Smoke signals
• Boondoggling
• Stasis / Even Duller
• Incompetence?
• Duller?
• Dull
• Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
• A Tale of Two ‘Crazies’
• Roland the One-Eyed Wonder Rat
• In case you need ideas for Mother’s Day
• Procrastination (or, I’m a lazy sod!)
• Alom’s film
• Synecology
• How to get rich as a post-doc: Part 3 (or, a piece of irrelevant whimsy)
• Growing older disgracefully: Part 3
• More than just a day
• Lllayyy-zee Sahnday Arrftahnoon-ah!
• Rescuing God?
• sex, lies, and watergate
• I have a dream
• I probably don’t mean nothing
• A small collection of random trivial items of holiday-induced incompleteness to amuse, muse, bore or interest whosoever’s attention might be tweaked
• Merry Mithras
• Indignation
• Universality
• Foo? Hardly.
• Good Friday
• Imagine
• On the theme of Martin’s meme
• Planetary
• Quantification quandary
• Of the best…
• An evening with Kristin
• Cryptocytology
• Defining science
• The Moral Haze
• Churchill’s mutt
• Master of Unreality
• How to get rich as a post-doc: Part 2
• Gulled by gulls
• A caliginous art (?)
• The Blair Conscience Project
• ‘The fool has said in his heart… ’
• Swine and cosmetics
• Anything spherical is a delicacy
• Heather Etchevers’s PCR tips
• Be afraid…
• … ‘cos I’m not really a curmudgeon
• Tenses’
• Further musings on the things science can’t explain: Part 2 (perhaps)
• Tardyon
• Principium
• Con-science?
• Life on Earth?
• Flagrant fragrancy or Fragrant flagrancy
• An aside on access to Big Cheese-dom
• Found my moth!
• Hallelujah!
• Comedy or tragedy?
• Morons breathe the same oxygen
• Growing older disgracefully: Part 2
• Papillon de nuit d’amour
• Alluvion
• Foot-balls!
• Growing older disgracefully
• Time un-Thearles
• Be happy in your work
• Why have a system when chaos will suffice?
• Meanwhile, in the metropolis (remotely)…
• Dispatch from Brasília
• ‘Merely’ does not apply
• How to get rich as a post-doc
• Nurse, the screens!
• A-Tone-ment?
• On talking shite!
• I can see clearly now
• Some science and religion stuff – and why not?
• Cuttlefish conundrum
• On the road
• It’s not relevant, of course…
• If it looks like a beaver…
• Secularism in crisis?
• On temporality
• Of Magpies and Leopards
• Reason and Reasonability
• Sense and Nonsense
• Fishy news
• Catholic Blair
• Science, help!
• One born every minute
• x
• Amy Winehouse: Part II
• Is Amy Winehouse a con?
• If you’re only interested in lab blogs…
• Dear Nicole
• Irish sojourn
• Convergence?
• Ph.D. ‘apprenticeships’
• A rocky analogy
• Further musings on the things science can’t explain
• Princess who?
• Art & Science
• Grow up!
• Green Man
• hESC research: why the controversy?
• Science and Religion
• Is stem cell research worth it?
• The truth about ‘Truth in Science’ and Intelligent Design