Does the Government Actually Do Good, or Just Create the Feeling It Does?

The Government response to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report on Homeopathy has been published, and is a masterpiece of dodging the issue. Congratulations to the author, Sir Humphrey Appleby. In short, they refuse to stop NHS funding of homeopathy, preferring to abdicate responsibility to the PCTs; see here: (Committee...

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Shit hits Fan

Jack of Kent has blogged about an amusing sequence of events on Twitter yesterday, starting when @GillianMcKeith responded impetuously to a Goldacre fan; go there for an amusing tale that casts light on modern manners in the internet age. The encouraging thing is the way that, in an electronic age, evidence can be uncovered which details...

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The Irony is Palpable

As I explained in my last blog, there is a curious strain of atheist or agnostic who, when perusing public discourse on matters of import, decides that the greatest enemies to improved reason and progress in that public discourse is something called a new atheist. It's difficult to define, but you know one when you see one! Meanness and...

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