Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Proof of Unintelligent Design.

Hat tip to my old chum Joel Shearer from Austin TX , for pointing this in my direction. The 2008 Republican presidential candidates were asked during a debate if any of them believed in evolution. Remarkably THREE, Brownback, Tancredo and... Read more →

Blair's Science.

I have real difficulty in taking seriously what Blair told a meeting of the Royal Society today in Oxford. I can pass over the lack of university funding that has forced university science departments to close; the woeful reduction in... Read more →

Just How Easy Is It?

The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air; And a loud voice came forth out of the temple of Heaven, From the throne, saying, "It is done!" --Revelation 16:17 For those flying to the US on the look... Read more →

The Root of all Evil

I've just finished watching the second part of Richard Dawkins' two parter on Channel 4 The Root of All Evil". I came across Dan Jones' magisterial critique if the first part here He promises to complete his dissection of Part... Read more →

An outbreak of common sense?

I suppose you’ve heard the joke about buses. You stand around for half an hour or more then two or three come together. It’s been like that for me today having waited months for an outbreak of common sense. Things... Read more →

Snake oil

“In truth, there is no such thing as alternative medicine: therapies either work or they do not. It is hard to find a better summary than that given by Richard Dawkins, in his forward to the late John Diamond's brilliant... Read more →

Melanie and the MMR vaccine.

On Wednesday this week Ben “Bad Science” Goldacre- there’s a link to his blog from this site- brutally pulled apart “Mad” Melanie Phillips’ piece in Monday’s Mail on one of her pet subjects - the MMR vaccine and Dr Wakefield's... 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 →

Fairy Wings

Radar,has a wonderful description of the Bush Presidency- Tinkerbell. He adds: Hence the administration’s war on science (i.e., actual knowledge), the latest salvo of which came this week when Bush announced his support for teaching in our nation’s schools “intelligent... Read more →