BioBlog

A couple of days ago our local paper carried a letter that included the bald statement: "vaccines cause ear infections."My first response to that one was: citations, please! That sort of statement is incredibly dangerous, because it's essentially saying, don't... Read More

Well, I managed to go just over 2 months without a dog...... Read More

In today's Royal Society news clippings was an item concerning a scientist's intention to manipulate chickens to get dinosaurs. Intriguing! A quick google search found a number of news items like this one - the researcher concerned believes that by... Read More

Sometimes scientific terminology can be quite confusing - everyday words like 'theory'  & 'law, for example, mean something different when used in a scientific context. And just what is a law in science, anyway? I've just stumbled across a brief excerpt... Read More