About Me
If you found me searching for the lyrics to the children's song, you can find them here.
I am a researcher in bionanotechnology currently living and working in Tokyo. I moved out here nearly three years ago, against my better judgement but in search of adventure. It has certainly been an adventure and not one I would have missed for the world.
I am trying to retrain as a designer and you may see the odd example of my work appear here as I progress.
I also indulge in opinionated rambling.
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Category Archives: Bad Science
Those damned climate emails
An excellent video on climategate:
If I am found to be actually awake after 23 years apparently in a coma…
… please Please PLEASE don’t get a “facilitated communicator” to help me write a book. Well, I was going to write a post about Rom Houben, and the discovery that he’s actually been concious for the last 23 years, but … Continue reading
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Sometimes I get things right
In the comments to my previous post on the Superfreakonomics witch hunt, I suggested that Joe Romm was misrepresenting things on a level far beyond the people he was accusing of doing the same. Here is a quote from Caldeira … Continue reading
Superfreakonomics witch-hunt?
I have watched with interest the controversy over the global warming chapter in Superfreakonomics, the much awaited sequel to Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. At first, I believed the hype and I was very discouraged, I love Freakonomics … Continue reading
Ethical?
There is another aspect of the biscuit injury story I want to briefly discuss before I put this to bed. I mentioned in yesterday’s post that Dr Lewis wrote to me and sent me the full report, which he did, … Continue reading
BITE 2: The Cookie Crumbles*
***Another update: I meant to say at some point that I’m unsure whether the behaviour of Dr Lewis is as cynical as it may appear on the surface, I am beginning to suspect him more of some quite severe naivety. … Continue reading
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BITE
***UPDATE: Not more than 20 mins after I posted this I got an reply from Dr Lewis to an email I sent him this morning. I am reading it now, part 2 coming soon! *** Apparently “more than half of … Continue reading
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Grrrrr
Here is The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health’s response to the recent press release on homeopathy by WHO: http://www.fih.org.uk/media_centre/muddy_waters_for.html There is one sentence in particular I take issue with: “Even if the effects of homeopathy are entirely due to the … Continue reading
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Toothyology
Funny YouTube clip: I am supposed to be going to work, not watching funny videos poking fun a quacks on YouTube but it is absolutely caining it down and I can’t currently think of a way of getting to work … Continue reading
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Homeopathic A&E – That Mitchel and Webb look.
*May be offensive to anyone holding a lingering affection for alternative therepies*
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