While we all approach things from our own point of view and all have prejudices and opinions of the moment, it seems scientists suffer most dreadfully from this and insist on continuing to display their remarkably narrow-band intelligence, ie., they can create a Bose-Einstein Condensate but can’t iron a shirt to save their life. Sheffield-based Dr Virpi [...]

These doctors of various disciplines (1 S.D., 4 Ph.D.’s and 2 M.D.’s) has produced a report entitled Factors Correlated with Violent Video Game Use by Adolescent Boys and Girls that has just been published in the Journal of Adolescent Health (Volume 41, Issue 1, July 2007, Pages 77-83). What do we learn? In the abstract, [...]

Dr Chris Stanley is a mineralogist of London’s Natural History Museum and, presumably, he doesn’t really want to work there anymore. Take this story with the eye-catching headline: ‘Kryptonite’ discoverd in mine Wow! The article starts by summing things up: A new mineral matching its unique chemistry – as described in the film Superman Returns [...]

While certainly not wanting to make light of the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, I noted with some amusement the latest report headline on the BBC News. Woolmer police ‘eliminate no-one’ The reporter isn’t credited on BBC.co.uk but someone should tell him, a murder investigation eliminating no-one is not exactly news. Even better, [...]

The number of experts quoted in the world of journalism is astonishing but the amount of insight these experts offer is depressingly low. Toady sees a BBC news report asking What’s the cost of e-mailing 1.8m people? That is the number of people that the UK government e-mailed in response to an online petition. For [...]