Another Seed blog moves on 31 May 2009 Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge is now here. Their reasons are given here. General Science
Evolution Wilkins on Wilkins on The Galilean Library 15 Apr 2008 In an amazing display of misjudgment, Paul Newall of the (otherwise) excellent site The Galilean Library has interviewed me about my views on the philosophy of biology. There are some serious folk interviewed there, so of course I feel like a fraud, but hey, you all know I love the… Read More
General Science The F-word 3 Apr 2008 Idiots and the ignorant should not speak on matters they do not understand. As I am both, I want to make some vague and ultimately useless comments about Framing, yet again. This has been motivated by Chris Mooney’s admirable attempts to get to the heart of the matter: here, here… Read More
Biology The taxonomy of disease 7 Sep 20117 Sep 2011 A letter in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery has argued that it is time to reform the taxonomy of disease. The authors are Ismail Kola, head of a pharmaceutics company, and Sir John Bell, Regius Professor at Oxford. The taxonomy of disease (technically called nosology) is an old one. Of course… Read More
Either you are a very polite man or my comment at Sandwalk today at 9:46 didn’t come across as snarky as I thought it would. I suspect the former is true: you are polite and tactful. My apologies for leaping without looking; I just realized you moved from Scienceblogs and are so honourable that you continue to honour your agreement . Your tact is evident from your comments at Pharyngula. I intend to follow your blog despite the fact that you say you you are “not the clearest writer on the planet” (your comment @ Pharyngula on May 23, 2009 10:10 PM). Veronica
It’s all right – nobody is going to know all the players in any particular event on the internet, apart from those involved.