Insanity
Just when you think insanity has reached its peak, it gets worse. First there is the Canadian Nanny State plumbing new depths in their efforts to protect the cheeeldren. I read this and all I could do...
View ArticleIt was my syndrome what done it
Once more we have a new “a study has found”. On an apparently daily basis these utterly useless studies clutter up the newspapers with their breathless “you’ll never believe what we have discovered”...
View ArticleReal science
Forget your Large Hadron Collider. Forget your Curiosity mission on Mars. These lads are just pissing around on the periphery of real science. They are spending billions on research that will benefit...
View ArticleSaving the world one patch at a time
I was sent an article last week. Matthew Liao, the director of the bioethics program and an associate professor in the Centre for Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy at New York University is...
View ArticleAnother OFFSM
I had another “oh for fuck’s sake moment” today. What, you may ask is an “oh for fuck’s sake moment”? It is that glorious moment when I find another piece of “research” that is so fucking ridiculous...
View ArticleHedging bets
I came across a wee article the other day. Apropos of nothing at all, it just struck me as typical of the mindless drivel that they love shovelling into the press these days. “Too much copper in your...
View ArticleGoing through the motions
Scientists have solved the world’s energy problems. Again. While their solution is a little intriguing I think I may see some problems. You see, they have discovered that Giant Panda poo contains...
View ArticleThe Fluoride Anomaly
A wee item caught my eye last week. There is a move, albeit a very small one, to have Fluoride removed from our water supply. I have mentioned before how the water here is virtually undrinkable because...
View ArticleShooting one’s self in the foot
I saw an interesting looking headline in the Irish Times. "Society would benefit from a better understanding of what is and isn’t science" Spot on, says I. The sub-header was even better. "A theory is...
View ArticleMy waistline is my business
79% of over-50s obese or overweight – study Yup. Another worthless time-wasting "study". Note that they don't say "79% of over 50s overweight or obese"? Doesn't have that element of shock to scare...
View ArticleHow long have you got?
I see Big Nanny has another nice little weapon in its ever growing arsenal? "Researchers1" claim to have found a blood test that can predict whether a person is going to die soon. Now I can't honestly...
View ArticleWriting about the stuff I haven’t time to write about
So many things to write about and no time to write them. I was going to mention this is Climate Week [apparently]. The madness continues and they hope that a cuddly get together on the Interweb is...
View ArticleThe children are dropping like flies
An article appeared in the papers last week. Could I let it pass? Nah! Passive smoking causes ‘irreversible damage’ to children’s arteries So this means that the children brought up in the last century...
View ArticleEgotistical masturbation
I used to have a great respect for science and scientists. I respected their expertise and their never ending quest for knowledge and the expansion of the field of human expertise. That was a while ago...
View ArticleKeep taking the tablets
I came across one of those pointless surveys last night. Always-on world making people happier, survey claims Always on what? Always on Facebook? Always on Twitter? Always on Prozac? Personally I...
View ArticleGroupthink
I read a very interesting article yesterday. Key to the modern world – the sinister groupthink by Christopher Booker. The more astute may snigger at the paradox where I quote another's thoughts and...
View ArticleThe anatomy of a binge drinker
Scientists have discovered what makes a person into a "binge drinker". Apparently it's down to "a large number of factors, including brain function, personality, life experiences and genetics". Wow!...
View ArticleHeadbangers
It is common here in Ireland to refer to someone as a "headbanger". Generally it means the subject is a bit of a headcase. Or if you are not so conversant in local idioms, it means they have a screw …...
View ArticleStating the bleeding obvious
I presume most people have heard the term "middle age spread"? It's a well known phenomenon that people's waistlines tend to expand a little as they grow older. I heard somewhere that it's due to the...
View ArticleThe meat of the matter
I watched Horizon on BBC last night. According to the blurb - In the first of two programmes this week investigating the truth about meat, Michael Mosley asks if those summer barbecue favourites –...
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