Although it does rather depend what happens the tree in its afterlife. Used in a building, or some other long term use the carbon is indeed locked away. Shoved into your woodburner/Drax power station… (View Post)

I certainly don't - they were all unscientific idiots. Its the classic of being ok to know nothing about STEM but be horrified if you don't know your classics issue. (View Post)

He's not the only politician to have harboured doubts about vaccines. A certain T. Blair and his wife almost certainly avoided the use of MMR for their son at the time of Wakefield pushing nonse… (View Post)

See also (sadly) Nazi Germany and the marginalization and extermination of the Jews. "I understand that all Jews are Scum, but this fellow, he fought on the Western Front with me, and he's … (View Post)

True, but I continually learn things on PB too. There is a lot of knowledge on here. Yes we often tend to have fixed views about stuff but we should aim to be open to being wrong, or change our minds. (View Post)