The very peculiar Chris Uhlmann has outdone himself with a piece in the Australian (where else?) entitled ‘Will Pauline Hanson be the Martin Luther of our time’1. While the title…
I was talking to a couple of former colleagues today, and what they were telling me about missing Law of the Sea data subsequent to their time in the organisation…
On its website, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) styles itself as the “world’s premier foreign intelligence agency”. It states that “the work we do at CIA is vital to U.S….
Often you will hear religious nutters try to give their weird beliefs a veneer of credibility by using scientific terminology. This is perhaps best exemplified by the use of the…
We have booked to see the movie Quartet in a few days. It is a most enjoyable movie, which we saw perhaps a decade or so ago. The movie was…
When I was a small child in Tumut, I suffered badly from what was later diagnosed as asthma to the extent that my local doctor suggested I should go to…
I only recently discovered that, like Cory Bernardi in early 20171, Gerard Rennick had been dumped from a winnable seat in the Senate, and had got the hump and attempted, also…
The current US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) was involved in litigation against Merck over its Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, alleging marketing fraud and undisclosed side…
So, what is Australia doing for the future? Cutting funding to science, that’s what. Since the beginning of 2024, 800 staff have been cut from Australia’s leading scientific research agency,…
I read an article a day or so ago, mostly about the development of a new type of battery in China, which it was said could give your average electric…
