The Dangers of Immunity Passports
'Immunity Passports' sound great - except over 80% of positive antibody test results will be false, leading to preventable deaths. Here’s why.
More Hot Poop: Turd Transplants
So, you all know we're just social care and transport systems for Our Microbial Overlords, the number of whose cells we carry on and in us outnumber our own but
Virus lives on bacteria in your poop: meet crAssphage!
Oh Dear. Never let microbiologists name stuff. We can’t even classify Strep properly so when a new virus is discovered that lives up half the human race’s Chocolate Starfishes you
How Do You Solve A Problem Like… Ebola
I shit you not, the Natural News has posted a homeopathic cure for Ebolavirus disease. These people are so dense light bends around them.
The Organic Delusion
'Organic' food remains a scientifically and nutritionally bankrupt con perpetrated on us that I've been meaning to write about for a while. But it's back in the news again... Gotta
Natural Is Best. Innit.
I’ve threatened to write about the Naturalistic Fallacy before; it’s a huge topic but one aspect of this fascinating cognitive bias has been doing the rounds again recently: the premise
The Microbiology of Superstition
What have superstitious beliefs about dragons and medieval miracles like transubstantiation got to do with microbiology? Everything! Keep up, FFS!
Sleeping with the Enemy
Do you sleep with your pets? I’m not talking hardcore bestiality here, but do you allow your pet to sleep on or in your bed? Do you? Who could blame
Do Bacteria Glow in the Dark?
Can UVB or 'black' light be used to find bacteria? It works on the TV, but is it a real thing? What's the science?
75% of Honey is ‘Fake’?
Since I last wrote about bees I was pointed at this article claiming “Shock finding: More than 75 per cent of all ‘honey’ sold in grocery stores contains no honey at
Does Unsafe Food Smell?
So, supermarket chiefs eat food past its Use By date and use the ‘smell test’ to identify if the food is safe to eat. Words fail me. Except "Dickheads", possibly.
Too Many Toxic Vaccines…
Though some try it’s difficult to argue with the benefits of vaccines. My eldest is 6 years old (going on 35); when I was his age vaccines protected just 5% of
Aspartame
Sometimes you see something that’s just so wrong and so full of logical fallacies, factual errors and stuff that’s just plain Bat Shit Crazy you can’t help yourself. Well, I can’t,