Mothballing continues apace, but I’d just like to say thank you for all the comments and private emails.
One question I have been asked by a few people is “Are you going to keep your blog on-line?” The answer is yes, I’m mothballing, not burning bridges.
In order to eliminate the maintenance of the blog, I [...]
It is a year since my first post on this blog. (Here in movable type, here as it then was in blogger form) Since this blog was started it has received over 330,000 visits, and currently receives an average of between 500-600 page views per day. Before the blog was installed on this site [...]
Robert Frost – The Armful
For every parcel I stoop down to seize
I lose some other off my arms and knees,
And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,
Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once
Yet nothing I should care to leave behind.
With all I have to hold with~ hand and mind
And heart, if need be, I [...]
Last Friday, a study was published in Paediatrics casting yet more doubt on the autism-MMR theory. No link between administration of the MMR vaccine and the development of autism was found in any subgroup of children. This study was largely ignored because of Wakefield’s conflict of interest story, but arguably the MMR [...]
Au currant reports on GMTV’s defense of Wakefield and Rob Hinkleysends me this choice cut from the Jon Snow’s Channel Four daily email:
The Government is leaping about on his proverbial research grave. It’s a grimly political tale, a battle betwixt the legal establishment and a questioning rebel, now charged by a newspaper with having compromised [...]
Time restricts the extent of my comments, but I have had to make the ultimate sacrifice of buying a Daily Mail for the first time in years in order to do this. Shiver.
The Guardian.
Reasonably sensible reporting (The same goes for The Observer over the weekend). To their credit when they mention the anti-MMR group [...]
Harry’s place has linked to the interesting report about the rise in popularity of collective public displays of emotion, so called conspicuous compassion.
“What really drives their behaviour is the need to be seen to care. And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.”
I see the overvaluing of empathy [...]
From Hakmao:
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms…Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man’s genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What [...]
The latest Adwatch is out, this time Augmentin.