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Follow the money

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Regularly whenever I read about some nefarious plot by Big Pharma to use vaccines to take over the world/cause autism/incite riots/insert crap of your choice here, the writer exhorts the reader to ‘follow the money’ as a phrase to indicate that the evil, money grubbers at Big Pharma can have their actions rationalised by seeing [...]

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Autism extremists

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

There is a lot wrong with the UK in terms of provision for autistic people and education about what autism is to the mainstream. One of the things that isn’t quite right is the National Autistic Society. It’s numerous flaws include a lack of autistic people at policy making level.

But you know what? It knows [...]

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The world is changing

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Why do I do it? I’m sitting here writing this after a lovely meal which included a rare glass of red wine and a hefty slice of Stilton. Behind me I hear the earnest futility of Jimmy Stewart as my wife watches (would you believe for the first time ever?) ‘Its A Wonderful Life’. My [...]

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Blog stats for 2006

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Of interest to absolutely no-one except me, I thought I’d bore fascinate you with the user stats for this blog. I’ve used a more accurate method this year of eschewing Awstats for a more powerful Logfile analyser called Web Expert which gives more emphasis to useful stats like unique visitors. Its a great tool but [...]

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