Like stomach ulcers a few years ago, Type 2 Diabetes now seems to have been deeply misunderstood by the medical establishment. The example of Hawking Radiation is also interesting as an example of an overturned orthodoxy. What the Wikipedia article … Continue reading
This is exciting news, especially for men of a certain age: Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators from the UK have apparently cured mice with well-established prostate tumors with no visible side effects via a new kind of tumor vaccine. And … Continue reading
There was a very interesting documentary on the BBC last night, Men of Rock: Geologist Iain Stewart retraces the steps of a band of maverick pioneers who made ground-breaking discoveries in the landscape of Scotland about how our planet works. … Continue reading
In the field of patent law: Intellectual Ventures, which is based in a Seattle suburb and claims 30,000 patents and patent applications, is believed to have the largest portfolio among firms that don’t make or sell products. It claims to … Continue reading
Earlier this year, I posted some comments from a discussion in which Ben Goldacre had asked: can anyone think of a case where the vast overwhelming majority of scientists, in their own field, all around the world, for a long period … Continue reading
The Sinclair C5 has received a facelift and been re-launched. Well, that’s not quite true; Sinclair has launched a new small electric vehicle, the X-1. The problem it will face, though, is association with the unsuccessful C5. Maybe a computing … Continue reading
Andy Russell made a suggestion: I was having a discussion in the comments on this blog recently about science funding. Amongst other things, a theory cropped up that to get funded research proposals must include some link, however desperate, with … Continue reading
Jeff McMahan, professor of philosophy at Rutgers, wrote a controversial piece in the NY Times. The conclusion is: It would be good to prevent the vast suffering and countless violent deaths caused by predation. There is therefore one reason to … Continue reading
What accounts for the sort of heartfelt drivel that followed the really rather uncontroversial observation Hawking recently made that current thinking in physics can account for the universe without the need for a creation event or a creator? I suspect … Continue reading
Cedric the Tasmanian Devil has died. Or perhaps I should say, Cedric has been killed. He was deliberately introduced to Devil Facial Tumour Disease, an aggressively infectious, fatal cancer that is threatening to make the Devils go the way of … Continue reading