Worth the effort…?
There is (fair) argument sometimes made that the huge amount of public money expended on often unnecessary and/or ineffective and/or downright dangerous ‘Big Pharma’ products renders objection to that...
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Avaaz (according to its own website) is: ‘… a global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.’ It does, by and large, apparently conduct itself reasonably, raising...
View ArticleThe pseudoscience of the creator of pseudoscience’s petty petition
My recent frowning response to what is, in effect, a defensive CAM-promoting petition brought informative comment on its creator. Hence, I’ve learned that the ‘M’ in ‘Jessica Braid (formerly M. United...
View ArticleRe-re-invention (… of Joey Barton)
The announcement that the National Secular Society has made Joey Barton a honorary associate doesn’t really grate on my ego, despite several years of paying membership subscriptions and penning the...
View ArticleScientists aren’t gods – quite the opposite: they’re fallible and accountable
I don’t know whether ‘Sir’ Simon Jenkins has acquired the clout to by-pass sub-editors and supply the (sub-)headlines to his own articles. If he has, then he palpably lacks the […]
View ArticleWorth the effort…?
There is (fair) argument sometimes made that the huge amount of public money expended on often unnecessary and/or ineffective and/or downright dangerous ‘Big Pharma’ products renders objection to that...
View ArticlePseudoscience’s petty petition
Avaaz (according to its own website) is: ‘… a global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.’ It does, by and large, apparently conduct itself reasonably, raising...
View ArticleThe pseudoscience of the creator of pseudoscience’s petty petition
My recent frowning response to what is, in effect, a defensive CAM-promoting petition brought informative comment on its creator. Hence, I’ve learned that the ‘M’ in ‘Jessica Braid (formerly M. […]
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