Terrible science

Sad to see such poor trial design around the use of animals in experiments (not knowing how many primates you were using is pretty damning; it’s not as if they are small or quiet). However, there aren’t many disciplines where this would be exposed as an...

Lovely phone mast story

Phone mast provider to residents: OK, we’ll turn off the mast to see if any of your symptoms could be caused by it (Headaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry burning itchy skins, gastric imbalances and totally disrupted sleep patterns).Residents: well about time...

Pragmatic environmentalism

Whole Earth Discipline has some interesting non-mainstream views on what we might actually have to do to rein in and reverse the damage to the environment we have already caused. I particularly liked the idea that agriculture is possibly the most non-natural thing we...