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Author Archives: Austin
Frankly dilutional
In which I have the strong feeling that it’s Déjà vu all over again. Ah, me. Homeopathy. * Sigh * Like most scientists who write about alternative medicine and pseudoscience, I am heartily sick of writing about homeopathy. After all, … Continue reading
Posted in Annoyances, Grumbling, Medicine, Pseudoscience
9 Comments
Same Procedure as EVERY Year
Just to let you know: I’m refraining from posting an end of year round-up. This is partly because, since this blog only started in December 2009, nigh-on everything you will find in the archives listed on the right is from … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Procrastination, Uncategorized
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Ome sweet ome
It has been a rather exhausting December, for all kinds of reasons – one of them, though not the biggest, being the move of this blog into its new home at Occam’s Typewriter. Consequently, since my last working day at … Continue reading
Posted in Annoyances, Grumbling, Humour, The Life Scientific, Universities
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Archive Reboot Fail – I hate moving
A quick glance at the sidebar will show you that, like my friend Stephen Curry over at Reciprocal Space, I have had a go at importing the not-all-that-extensive Not Ranting… archive from the blog’s previous home. Unfortunately, the import functionality … Continue reading
Posted in Annoyances, Procrastination
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I’m a celebrity scientist – get me out of here
Henry Gee’s recent post on Dancing With the Scientists, bemoaning the lack of scientists in the currently ubiquitous celebrity reality shows, reminded me that a few years ago I had written a piece about exactly this, which I promised I … Continue reading
Posted in Grumbling, Humour, Procrastination, The Life Scientific
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Settling in
Sorry, another “place-holder” post, end of teaching semester and pre-Xmas “Help I still haven’t done XYZ!” kind of thing, all a bit frantic, hopefully some new content coming…. I’ve just penned an official sign-off post at Nature Network to indicate … Continue reading
Posted in History, Pseudoscience, Science policy
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