Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

BRAIN GYM - THE THEORY…

You can find this sort of drivel all over the net. Just Google Brain Gym. BRAIN GYM - THE THEORY… What is Brain Gym? Movement is a key part of the process of development and learning. Brain Gym is a... Read more →

The Mozart Effect ® and Other ®Tosh

Here, my old chum Dr Crippen writes in praise of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. “His favourite opera, however, surely the yardstick, the most perfect opera ever written, is Figaro. Figaro will be the one he will keep on the Desert... Read more →

Pro-biotics

Ben G's blog has this wonderful comment from "Tessa K" She does not give a website so no URL I'm afraid. I've cut and pasted this comment. It'll prevent you wearing out your wrists scrolling down. It's about the pro-biotic... Read more →

First stop Ararat.

Anyone who thinks there is a limit to American relgious nonsense should visit this site Apparently: Night after night in April, May, and June 1974, Pastor Richard Greene had a vision in which he saw a large ark located on... Read more →

Homeopathy Rumbled

I've posted here about the nonsense that is homeopathy but from the Randi Foundation a report that the Académie Nationale de Médicine has made a sensible move against this quackery. “France's "Académie Nationale de Médecine," the country's leading medical authority,... Read more →

Bird flu quack.

Avian flu or the H5N1 strain of avian influenza has hardly got off the ground as a threat to humans in the UK or the US. But the usual suspects are coming up with their quack preventitives. My old friend... Read more →

Intelligent Falling

As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory... Read more →

Homeopathy- Just Water Please

I’ve never been persuaded that homeopathic “medicine” works. In fact unlike the latest scientific offering reported in the Lancet and abstracted by the BBC On Line, I have difficulty in accepting that it even works by the so-called placebo effect.... Read more →