Will Lockdowns Ever End?
If you think any relaxation of lockdown means we're getting back to normal or social distancing will keep you safe at work, think again. Wrong on both counts.
Aspartame. Again.
I've written about aspartame before and a lot of the Utter, Utter Bollocks (µ²B) claimed of it. Now a new study has been published claiming diet soda causes obesity that lazy
Flu Vaccine 2015: Worthless Or Not?
You find me just returned from a trip to another medieval theocracy where this site is banned - but this is a state that takes its collective delusions so seriously
A Year In Review
Exactly a year ago I started this blogging lark with a fairly thoughtful piece about the cognitive biases that compel otherwise intelligent people not vaccinate their kids. Which is apposite
GMO: Frankenfoods, Facts and Fictions
Type ‘GMO’ into any Internet search engine and the results might well convince you that we are all on the brink of global environmental collapse triggered by something entirely man-made,
Thinktank: Pseudoscience Part II
Oh dear. My post yesterday detailed the lack of response from Birmingham's science museum, Thinktank, to my complaint regarding rampant pseudoscience in several of their exhibits. One was their ascribing
Thinktank: the Birmingham Museum of Pseudoscience
Birmingham in the heart of England has a wonderful scientific heritage as well as an industrial one - it was Birmingham that sparked the Industrial Revolution - and it also boasts an
Ebola, Saint Bob and Celebrity Tax Dodgers…
So, ‘Saint’ Bob Geldof is at it again. Many say his motives in getting his latest gang of ill-informed celebrity do-gooders to rework one of the worst songs of all
Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers
Kenyan clergy and doctors are trying to condemn mothers and newborns to a horrible - and preventable - death. Because vaccines are actually contraceptives, obviously.
Ebola: Airborne My Arse!
Gotta love the Daily Mail. When it comes to science "reporting" the Fail can make seamlessly weaving half-facts, logical fallacies, non-sequiturs and Utter, Utter Bollocks (µ²B) into a science-free, sensationalist headline
Ebola now epidemic. We’re all going to die. Official.
According to the WHO Ebola is now at epidemic proportions and no longer a mere outbreak. And it’s true – we’re all going to die. Just not from sodding Ebola.
Crab extinction due to human intervention
An academic paper just published confirms we have managed to drive yet another species to the verge of extinction - but no one seems to care. The WWF doesn't list
Bugs Up Your Arse Cause Voices In Your Head
Several sources including IFLScience have set the Social Meeja Intertubes alight with the fascinating suggestion that your gut microbiota control your appetite. [NOTE: This article was written in the United Arab Emirates