Monthly Archives: November 2009

Alternative Science, Junk Science

I still remem­ber the shock when I realised that the prac­tice of home­opa­thy was funded within the National Health Ser­vice (NHS) in Eng­land. I was tak­ing a lunchtime stroll when I came across the Royal Lon­don Home­o­pathic Hos­pi­tal, which as it turned out was one of the hos­pi­tals within the UCL Hos­pi­tals NHS trust, which

On Pride and the Budget

This is my Busi­ness­Day col­umn of today. Cross-posted here. Some­time ago, in a forum of Nige­ri­ans, some­one said that he did not know whether to be proud to be a Niger­ian. The response: “How dare you say you might not be proud of Nige­ria? That is the kind of thing that makes other coun­tries dump

Thinking about Evolution (2)

Here is a response from my per­sonal blog to Think­ing about Evo­lu­tion, writ­ten by Femi Owagbemi, a med­ical doc­tor in Nige­ria. I couldn’t resist post­ing it here. This and other responses from Square One can be found here. Evo­lu­tion is not just a bio­log­i­cal con­cept. It occurs in all facets of life. It is nei­ther

Do You Trust Yourself?

A cou­ple of years ago I went inter­net hop­ping and I came across a site that gives you access to your partner’s con­ver­sa­tion.  Basi­cally, if you put in your partner’s phone num­ber, you will be able to lis­ten in to his/her con­ver­sa­tion.  That web­site also had other ‘cool’ tools and ser­vices.  I was tempted.  In

Oil, Power, Food and good old Police brutality.

The NigeriansTalk.org Weekly Linked List #6 Lies or delu­sion, I don’t know which or maybe both Hmm, just hmm See as trou­ble dey start. If one third of the money is prop­erly uti­lized, I’ll be shocked. Will the Niger­ian gov­ern­ment do any­thing? Some­thing good is in the works Police una do well o. links­color = “000000”; high­lights­color = “888888”; back­ground­color =

Health, Food and Bode George

The NigeriansTalk.org Weekly Linked List #5 NACA wants $7.5 bil­lion to fight HIV/AIDS.….…..give it to them. Swine flu is here.….…..oh no! NAFDAC and food.….……it’s about time. Sucks to be Cote d’Ivoire.….….…will we take advan­tage of this? Another Bode George news item.….….……here. links­color = “000000”; high­lights­color = “888888”; back­ground­color = “FFFFFF”; chan­nel = “none”;

Thinking about Evolution

There is at least one sense in which Nige­ria and the US are very sim­i­lar: hav­ing a remark­ably high pro­por­tion of reli­gious peo­ple – or as the present fad expres­sion goes, peo­ple that “have a per­sonal rela­tion­ship with God” – and of course also hav­ing a high pro­por­tion of cre­ation­ists, which fol­lows, so it seems,