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In which Dr Aust hails a vintage piece of Corporate-balls. One of the occasional pleasures of blogging is the unexpected emails you get offering tip-offs or material, relating to something you have blogged about. For instance, my friend David Colquhoun, having written extensively about bogus B.Sc. degrees in Unreality, often gets plain-brown-envelope anonymous deliveries of [...]

Jump to follow-up I hate to be forced to return to the world’s most boring delusion, homeopathy. It is boring because the battle to inform people how daft it is has been almost won. Now not a single Bachelors degree in homeopathy appears in UCAS, compared with at least five in 2007. But the battle [...]

In which Dr Aust finds some black humour on the Internet. As redundancies loom in various parts of the University sector, I have to remind myself that we here in UK Universities PLC are still, despite an expanding cadre of managerial droids, comparatively “under-managed” compared to many sectors of the economy. No, really. Well, all [...]

[BPSDB]Mike Adams of Natural News is still banging on about the UK seasonal flu vaccine shortage. He makes his case by completely misunderstanding UK health care provision and invoking Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent research. After months of urging everyone to get vaccinated (and blaming non-vaccinated people for skipping out on their “public health obligation”), UK health [...]

Armed with a canvas bag brimming with vintage chemistry glassware, Tania Hershman looked like someone off to set up some insane experiment when I met up with her in Cotham last week. Despite being a writer and no longer a scientist, it turned out that is almost precisely what she’s up to.

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