Stop paying the “talent” quite so much money, would help. Pay up and coming presenters, newsreaders etc. There are plenty of BBC presenters on huge salaries bed blocking the younger generations. I do… (View Post)

Blame the idiot ancestors who took up farming, rather than living free as hunter gatherers. They ended up living cheek by jowl with all those domesticated beasts and thus gave zoonosis a turbo burst. (View Post)

I hope you are staying aware from vampires… (View Post)

They might have thought that they were responsible without it actually being the case. Its possible. I have no illusions about the malfeasance of some scientists - they are just people after all. I f… (View Post)

Two brief vignettes cos it’s late. In the late ‘90s a well respected scientist in the polymerisation field (using transition metal catalysts to make polymers) published an article using aluminium as … (View Post)