Yesterday evening saw the Skeptics in the Pub (the skeptics being of London and the pub the Penderel’s Oak) to hear Martin J Robbins (twitter @mjrobbins), of layscience.net and the Guardian, talk on ‘the impossibility of debating homeopathy’. Martin has kindly agreed to send me the slides from his presentation and I will post them […]
In an open letter in yesterday’s Guardian, George Monbiot attacks Hazel Blears for being, well, Hazel Blears. I have no objection to whinging lefties. Indeed, I often whinge and (definitional objections notwithstanding) have been called a leftie. Monbiot gives us a bad name. Not only that, he makes what he wants to achieve and what […]
One of my favourite blogs, Bloggerheads, has been taken down because of the actions of one Alisher Usamnov. From Chicken Yoghurt: Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads site is currently down after his webhost pulled the plug. You can thank the latest Russian (that should be Uzbek) billionaire to reach the UK. The details will come out in […]