The idea of miasma springs to mind. It wasn't unscientific, but it was based on incomplete knowledge so it wasn't correct. It was however displaced by the revelation it wasn't the smel… (View Post)

Sorry to go O/T already on Bondegezou's interesting header, but I have got to ask India: Are you Australia in disguise? Oh, and did I mention? Australia didn't make it past the group stage. (View Post)

I thought the whole point of socialism was to eventually eliminate a money based economy in favour of commonality of labour? (View Post)

Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Gabbard, all could definitely do with getting some intelligence. (View Post)

And unfortunately there are none in positions of power. One person who did ask the right questions was Blunkett, for I think the very obvious reason, although the quality of his answers was uneven. S… (View Post)