This is rather splendid:
Remember folks, Wi-fi eats babies.
That site is an excellent response to the appalling Panorama programme. Previous wi-fi woes are here and here.
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
On inventing health scares
31-May-07Drug Regulation – Chinese style
29-May-07After years of no regulation of medicines in China, they set up a body similar to the FDA. Now they are executing its first head:
China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country’s main quality control agency announced its first recall system for unsafe [...]
Thalidomide
19-May-07As a counterpoint to the post about the mouse, it is worth remembering that sometimes suspicions of harm can be true. Here are thirteen facts about thalidomide, some of which you might not have known.
Chemie Grünenthal, who developed thalidomide (Contergan in Germany, Distaval in the UK), had two drugs pulled from the market prior to [...]
Chimeraphobia
18-May-07The following article appears in the latest edition of The Philosopher’s Magazine. It was written before the news today that ministers are to allow hybrid embryo research.
Chimeraphobia, Anthony Cox
When HG Wells wrote The Island of Doctor Moreau, the British scientific community was embroiled in a debate about vivisection. His novel played on those contemporary concerns, [...]
A mouse of my acquaintance…
16-May-07I’m currently sat in the British Library sifting my way though various tomes concerned with adverse drug reactions, and have come across the following interesting poem about causation by W.R. Espy, buried within a discussion about detection of adverse events:
A mouse of my acquaintance in seven days was fed
Twice twenty thousand swordfish, and now that [...]
Gone fishing
15-May-07Portugese men fishing on the banks of the Tagus River at Belem in Lisbon in August 2006.
UPDATE: This blog is currently resting, but material I publish elsewhere (and occasional relapses) will appear immediately above this posting in the mean time. This post was originally posted on the 12th of February 2007, but the date is [...]
Roofs over Malcesine
12-May-07Click to enlarge
Blair forever
10-May-07News just in…
Tony Blair has just announced in his Sedgefield constituency that the country is, with immediate effect, under martial law. The Army and Police are now securing major cities, airports and seaports.
Parliament is suspended. All political parties, apart from New Labour, have been declared illegal. Gordon Brown, and his supporters, have been exiled [...]
No more Beta!
08-May-07My friend Simon Whitaker has created the site No More Beta!, in a fit of desperation I think, in order to counter the misuse of the letter beta in web applications.
Personally, I think he himself oversteps the mark by tacitly accepting the term Web 2.0 in his explanation. Such a transgression is deserving of a [...]