Ötzi’s Penicillin – The Birch Bark Fungus Called The Birch Polypore
That useful drugs can be found out there in nature is obviously true. That's how Fleming discovered penicillin after all. It's also why the...
That Laffer Curve Thing – GP Closures Driven By GP Pensions Changes
So, The Guardian tells us that GP surgeries are closing across the country. In fact, there's been a surge of such in the past...
The 23 Week, 8.6 Ounces, Baby and Late Abortion
The basic moral question at the heart of the abortion debate is what is a human being? This is one of those things where...
Andrew Wakefield’s Terribly Stupid Ideas On Vaccines
That Andrew Wakefield himself is not terribly stupid is obvious. Few have the brains - or the gall - to turn some entirely dubious...
Why Does Zolgensma Cost $2.15 Million A Treatment? Because Someone’s Got To Pay
Zolgensma is a new drug out to treat a specific genetic defect which usually kills those who have it by the time they're two...
Prodnoses – People Must Be Banned From Eating What They Like
There's a certain type of person, a character set, that we should never allow to get anywhere near actual power over us. Because their...
The US Couldn’t Have Ended Up With The National Health Service, Not Possible
That the health care system in the United States could have been different if different decisions were taken is entirely true, as the following...
A Plurality Of Americans Are Anti-Abortion – Shouldn’t It Be Illegal Then?
We've all long known that American attitudes to abortion are rather different than they are over here in Europe. We do indeed have people...
Another Question In A Guardian Headline We Can Answer – No
Betteridge's Law states that questions in headlines can usually be answered with a no. The more sophisticated version being an injunction to headline writers...
There Always Is A Prodnose Telling Us To Swear Off The Booze, Isn’t There?
The latest drivel from the prodnoses and wowsers is that we Brits are doing our drinking in entirely the wrong manner. We, apparently, like...