Category Archives: Health

Stupidity in political memes

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I know that raging against stupidity on the internet is a pointless exercise and best avoided, and I’ve no great love for Monsanto. However I’ve not yet met a windmill I won’t tilt against, so humour me on this. The image here has been going around on that bastion of deep thinking and intellectual debate that is Facebook, highlighting how we can’t possible trust GM foods from Monsanto as those foods kill insects!! Now I’m quite happy to not trust Monsanto as far as I could throw kitten kong, and have suggested to people the game of “name a Monsanto … Continue reading →

Here comes the nudge

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I muttered yesterday about how the Welsh assembly had decided we no longer owned our own bodies (at least not once dead) and that they could just help themselves to our organs, unless they somehow knew we’d said that they couldn’t. Well here comes the “nudge” for the rest of. If you’re not a registered donor, on a database not just carrying a card then to the back of the queue for you if you need a transplant yourself. The telegraph is reporting that the NHS would like to push non-donors to the back of the transplant queue to encourage … Continue reading →