The year is 2008. A young Iraqi woman falls in love with a British soldier. Her father hears of this and subsequently, assisted by his two sons, stamps on, suffocates and stabs to death his own daughter. He is outraged that she has shamed his family in this way. Furthermore, he claims that she deserved [...]
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Dr Werner, you are a singularity of stupid
March 22nd, 2008 · 92 Comments · Commentary
We all know that homeopathy is really stupid, just like most alternative medicine. However, when I saw this “lecture” by Dr Charlene Werner, I was astounded by the depths of stupidity that she is able to attain. It’s almost like she’s a kind of Superheroine of Stupidity, with the special power of creating a singularity [...]
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Alternative medicine, you suck
January 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Commentary
My blood has cooled down enough for me to write this now, it was positively boiling an hour or two ago. Tonight Netwerk, a documentary on one of the Dutch national channels, reported on the AIDS vs sangoma situation back in South Africa. Those of you who understand Dutch can read this compact summary. In [...]
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Bush knew that Saddam had no WMDs
September 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Commentary
With this I’m doing my bit to spread this news in my part of the blogosphere (*cough* I’m not supposed to use that word, EVAR). It turns out that Bush knew all along that Saddam had absolutely no WMDs, but that the decision had already been made to invade Iraq, and that the intelligence was [...]
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You must vaccinate
May 21st, 2009 · 25 Comments · Commentary, education, life, meta, science
I was mistakenly under the impression that, at least in my social circles, the whole vaccination issue had been put completely to rest, but based on the number of serious questions that I’ve been asked recently, this unfortunately does not seem to be the case. For those of you who don’t have time, I’ll cut [...]
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