95th Skeptics’ Circle!

Yep, it’s up over at the Skeptic’s Dictionary! Check out the latest revelations of Nostradamus.
Sort of.
Since I’ll be quite busy Friday learning to band geese (or at least being pooped on by geese), I’ll also throw in this photo of a wonderful topiary apparently on the A8. (Photo by MacBern)
I love Wallace and Gromit! If [...]

Why we failed on Malaria

Yeah. What he said:
“The war against malaria in tropical countries was fought and lost in the 20th Century on the basis of faulty intelligence, a ‘dodgy dossier’ which argued that the same methods used to tackle the disease in temperate countries would also work in the tropics.
Eradication failed in almost every tropical and sub-tropical country, [...]