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Barnett, Goldacre, and LBC Update

The Botherer (AKA John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun.) has been following the events surrounding the subject of this post more closely than I and has posted a concise summary on his blog.
I’m beginning to find the behaviour of LBC, Barnett and others quite despicable and would urge anyone who advertises with LBC to [...]

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A Great Quote

Science, especially physics is exceptionally good at tackling the difficult. It is remarkably poor at tackling the complex. In principle all biology reduces to chemistry and all chemistry to physics. Except that ain’t how it is in practice. There is still a place for the bug-collectors and the smell-merchants and that is for a good [...]

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Holy Crap! Is This Time Travel?

LANL scientist makes radio waves
travel faster than light – SantaFeNewMexican.com.
Ok if I’m reading this right, This device could potentially transmit a signal now, in fifteen minutes time, and fifteen minutes ago and they could all be recieved half an hour ago. I’m no physicist but thats time travel in my book.
It also seems that the [...]

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