I saw this on social media the other day: It took a few moments to get my head around the idea, but it’s an image of the Sun by ‘neutrino light’. Neutrinos do not interact with ordinary matter, so these neutrinos have passed through the Earth unhindered. Unfortunately, this also means most of them passContinue reading “Spare a thought for conspiracists”
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Vaccinations – a common-sense view
When I was growing up in the 1950s British midlands, a common sight was children wearing leg callipers. They were recovering from Polio. Everyone knew someone who’d had polio. My grandmother had had it as a child, and her height never exceeded 4 ft 5 inches. My junior school teacher had it as an adult,Continue reading “Vaccinations – a common-sense view”
It’s only a theory
An attempt to clarify what is meant by the phrase ‘scientific theory’.
Against Conspiracy Theories
When it comes to embracing new information, there are three types of people… the majority fall into the category where they acknowledge that the new information may be important, but they don’t understand the subject (medicine, politics, finance, physics, etc.) well enough to make a judgement, so they rely on the opinions of experts. ThenContinue reading “Against Conspiracy Theories”
