We’re all, of course, very happy about the results of the House of Commons Science and Technology committee’s evidence check on homeopathy. But it’s important to realise exactly what has happened. This is a House of Commons committee which has produced a list of recommendations. The government is under no obligation at all to take… Continue reading Homeopathy Petition
Month: February 2010
Homeopathic Dilutions
Like many press outlets, the Daily Mail pre-empted the publication of the Science and Technology committee report and published a story yesterday summing up the MPs’ findings. Of course the Daily Mail is the home of the gullible reader and a good number of the comments on that story are attempting to defend the woo-mongers.… Continue reading Homeopathic Dilutions
NHS Money Wasted on Homeopathy
Don’t have time to go into the detail that it deserves, but the House of Commons science and technology committee has published the results of its evidence check on homeopathy. The results won’t, of course, come as any surprise to anyone who has been following the debate. But I have to admit to be impressed… Continue reading NHS Money Wasted on Homeopathy
David Wright and Twitter
you can put lipstick on a scum-sucking pig but it is still a scum-sucking pig That’s apparently what Labour MP David Wright said about the Tory party on Twitter on Monday. I say “apparently” because he claims he didn’t say it. He says that his tweets have been tinkered with. He says that the words… Continue reading David Wright and Twitter
The Pod Delusion
I’ve never really been a fan of podcasts. It’s related to the reason why I rarely listen to talk radio – I think that audio is a really inefficient way to absorb information. I could take in the information at three or four times the speed if I could read it. But there’s an exception… Continue reading The Pod Delusion
Comments
In the middle of last week I upgraded this site to Movable Type 5. And at (I assume) the same time comments stopped working. It seems that it was some incompatibility between the MT5 Javascript that drives the comment system and the old MT4 templates that I was using. I’ve now rebuilt the site using… Continue reading Comments