Dying expertise – have we really had “enough of experts”?
I had an interesting response to my last blog post that I was grateful that Premier Christianity picked up and gave it a very wide audience (Thanks Sam Hailes!). Most of the feedback was positive which was a surprise! Maybe I tapped into something that a lot of us are thinking but choose to not say…
Sleepwalking into disaster – Christians and pseudo-science
As a surgeon who spends a large part of his life covered in other people’s bodily fluids, you would think that I would have developed a fairly solid stomach. Yet every time I venture back on to Twitter or Facebook, I feel a flutter in my stomach that fills me with dread. Who will be…
The mysterious paper around the Flu and Covid link
I noted in the previous post that I’m not looking at deciding (yet) if the Tegnell/Swedish approach worked. I’m still working around how this is being reported and what is pushing people to argue about this as if it’s of utmost importance. However, there has been a very odd non peer-reviewed paper by 3 economists…
Why is everything so polarised?
I watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix a few nights back and this prompted me to take a bit of a step back and consider how much the social media world is probably feeding in to our current state of affairs. To put it in a nutshell, the documentary looks at how social media is…
Media lies – Deaths from lockdown in the UK
200 000 was the estimate reported in late July by the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail as “all caused by lockdown”. Metro were more nuanced (!) on this front and reported it as knockon effect of lockdown and effects of Covid on the NHS. The news brought the usual array of people who previously…
How not believing in Virii will make you a “reliable source” on Twitter
In these troubled times, we have limited time to read stuff so something that is billed as facts and reasoning should be a welcome sign surely? David Robertson seemed to think it was essential stuff so I dove right in… What followed was a rather interesting but ultimately wasteful trip. Appraising evidence 101 – look…
How to waste time and waste more time
Twitter is a real waste of time. Having mostly read people over the years, I started to respond (first mistake). I’ve stuck to being semi-anonymous on twitter and here for a variety of reasons – none of them being cowardice – but find that I’m going to have to use this blog space for more…
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