Seamus Hogan • Apr 11, 2014 •
I love the description of “meatball surgery” in M*A*S*H (the original book, not the saccharine sit-com that came two degrees of separation later). To quote Hawkeye Pierce:We are not concerned with the ultimate reconstruction of the patient. We are concerned only with getting the kid out of here alive enough for someone else to reconstruct him. Up to a … Read More
Ken Perrott • Feb 12, 2014 •
This has become a sort of slogan for activists. We have all probably seen the anti-fluoride political posters – “If in doubt, keep it out.” And we have heard the appeal that we should not be putting fluoride into our … Continue reading → … Read More
Brendan Moyle • Nov 02, 2010 •
A lot of conservation decisions are difficult as a consequence of poor knowledge. Often we don’t actually know a lot about the population size of endangered wildlife, crucial gaps will persist about their biology (breeding, diet, distribution etc) and the responses of people to changes in the management can be very hard to predict. These knowledge problems can persist for … Read More