Rob's Memory Backup

Category: opinion

  • Brexit Day

    If ever I wondered what being on the receiving end of nervous smugness was like, today I can wonder no more. Some exponents of the Leave campaign on Twitter have today furiously denied the fact that the UK needs the EU more than the EU needs the UK because of the EU having more deficit.…

  • 30 SCIENTIFIC STUDIES THAT DEMONSTRATE VAXES CAN CAUSE AUTISM – a response

    I see this posted multiple times, & since it references peer-reviewed papers (inconveniently without links), it merits investigation. I’ll read every paper listed, where publicly available, look for further work responding to it or related to it, & comment on its relevance to the original claim. There’s a lot of material to go through, so…

  • Abiogenesis – the bar

    Abiogenesis gets a lot of stick from sceptics because it seems intuitively wrong. In my experience, the most common problem people seem to have with the idea is that it appears to rely on a highly complicated chemistry arising from nothing more than random processes. While there isn’t yet a conclusive empirical description of how…