Keele, March 30th. Details below the fold. […]
Month: February 2009
Update on Purdy
Debbie Purdy has lost her case for clarification of the law on assisted suicide. Details are all over your preferred news source: the BBC site seems to have crashed at the moment. I’ll post something more thought-through later. […]
Money for Octuplets
I don’t think that anyone has mentioned the increasingly curious Suleman octuplet story yet on this blog. So I’ll just quickly point out that Nadya Suleman has – obviously – a website, on which she asks for comments and – erm – donations. If someone could tell me what to think about this in a sane and […]
Drugs are Bad, m’kaaaay?
As widely predicted, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has advised that ecstasy be downgraded from a class-A to a class-B drug. This comes in the wake of the Council’s chair, David Nutt, suggesting that ecstasy ought to be considered no more dangerous than horse-riding. (The full article can be found here, but for non-institutional readers, a […]
Population Control, Chinese Style?
Enough with one child per family, already – let the kids smoke themselves into population control… Apologies for having to link it: I can’t seem to get LiveLeak to embed. I fail at computer. (Thanks to Garen FD for the pointer.) […]
Homeopathy: Healing the World (in very very very small doses)
PZ Meyers has picked up a strange story: apparently, there’s an organisation called Homeopaths Without Borders – clearly picking up on MSF’s name – that intends to send crack teams of homeopaths to disaster areas. Their site’s mainly in German at the moment – they promise updates – but here’s a taste of what they […]