Last month members of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) destroyed three lorries using incendiary devices at RMC’s headquarters at Thorpe, Sur-rey. Fifty firefighters took three hours to extinguish the blaze.
A message on the ALF website said: “This attack is a warning to RMC that collaboration in animal torture at Oxford or anywhere else will not [...]
Blogging is suspended for the forseeable future, any professional writing I produce in the interim will be documented here.
Apologies to all my readers and a big thank you to all the bloggers who have linked to me over the past months. (Note: The sites permalinks will not change).
Hidden behind this blog is my old site, which was rarely updated. There you can find a resource section, which has the original Cambridgeshire Health Authority report on the death of a patient due to methotrexate, and an interesting lecture on human error by Professor James Reason. (Well worth reading). You can also [...]
I have no idea where this comes from, but it was sent to me sometime ago by a friend:
Suppose I claim that cats are Martian secret agents. You might think my theory easily disproved. After all, cats are pretty stupid creatures, obviously incapable of such treachery. We don’t find transmitters secreted about our houses by [...]
I should have blogged this at the time. It is the first decent study in the UK of the burden of iatrogenic drug disease. However a point. The BMJ usefully puts a box on its published papers, telling what was known before the study, and what the study adds. This is what the [...]
The Scientists
An interesting article about MMR vaccine and the role of science in medicine by Hugh Pennington in the London Review of Books. (via Crooked Timber)
The Public
An interesting paper looking at the differences between those who are undervaccinated and those who are unvaccinated. An interesting variant of the “haves and have nots”
Results. Undervaccinated children [...]
The Philosophy Quiz asks you some weighted questions about morality and philosophy, then attempts to match your views to various philosophers. My results are below.
1. John Stuart Mill (100%)
2. Kant (91%)
3. Ayn Rand (74%)
4. Aquinas (70%)
5. Jean-Paul Sartre (70%)
6. Jeremy Bentham (69%)
7. Epicureans [...]
A colleague of mine spent most of the weekend being asked by very serious rowers which medicines they could take and which they could not. Drugs and sport are never far apart. There is even a website dedicated to following the issue. Even Lance Armstrong is smeared with allegations, and his continuing battle [...]
I’ve taken to wearing a yellow jersey, sadly this is not because I am doing well in the Tour de France (Go Lance!), but because I am negotiating busy city centre traffic. After a couple of months of cycling 20 plus miles a day I’ve lost pounds in weight, obtained a noticable increase in [...]