Woo medicine kills 27 Jan 2010 A nice roundup from New Zealand; note the case of the baby with meningitis. The case is a coroner’s case. Science
Quotes Churchill on Islam 11 Oct 2010 How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce,… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Tautology 2: The problem arises 23 Aug 2009 After Williams and others had made the comment that fitness is a tautology, it came around that the point needed to be discussed in more detail. One such discussion was by a student of Dobzhansky’s, Richard Lewontin. Read More
History The first biological species concept 10 May 200918 Sep 2017 Before this text in 1686, the term species just meant some sort or kind of organism. It was a Latin word in ordinary use without much meaning in natural history, but then arguments began whether or not there were one or more species for this or that group, and so… Read More
It is perhaps , particularily significant that the wonderful intertubes preserved the appropriate hyphenation In the ultimate word of this sentence! “Unhealthy eye colours — green, white, yellow, orange or hazel — can be changed, they say, through dietary modifications. This has yet to be demon-strated.” I await the Demon-stration!!