I didn’t know this and I suspect others don’t know about it either. This year’s flu jab protects against H1N1 and other common seasonal flu strains. To be clear, it is a vaccine against swine flu and that’s important. It’s rather strange that I wasn’t told this because I believed that the flu jab simply …
UK flu jab contains vaccine against H1N1 swine flu Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT-AUSTRALIA: This story is shocking; so shocking that the judge in court, Chief Justice Michael Grant, asked the public and security staff to leave the courtroom where the offender was attending court because the facts of the case had the ability to shock people. The judge genuinely thought that the facts had the …
British crocodile expert admits to multiple acts of bestiality with 42 dogs Read More »
The Times reports on a University of Sheffield article describing research that they have done on using the poop of endangered animals to kill certain bacterial species including superbugs which are resistant to antibiotics and which cause diabetic foot ulcers. Apparently, diabetics can suffer from untreatable foot ulcers. This is not uncommon as The Times …
Endangered species’ poop could help fight diabetic foot ulcers Read More »
In the 17th-century women were much more likely than men to be accused of being a witch because of the work they did. Only 15% of people branded witches were men. Womens’ jobs had a much higher chance of accidentally causing illness or even death in others according to a Cambridge University study. The kind …
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NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: This is a follow-up to the original American XL bully story which perhaps the world knows about now namely that the UK government is going to ban this type of dog (it is not a registered breed) following far too many attacks, maulings and killings of people and pets. News also emerged …
American XL bully owners are abandoning or euthanizing them because of the impending ban Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT: The American XL bully dog story is worse than we thought. This type of dog is going to be banned in the UK because it is killing and injuring people and their pets. The shocking news today is that this dog type (it is not a registered breed) is being trained by …
There has been a lot of talk recently about the two, tiny “aliens” unearthed in Mexico. They are miniature alien corpses supposedly, 1000 years old. The pictures and the videos have kicked off a lot of ridicule from the world’s online comedians. Comedic memes Clearly a lot of people don’t believe they are real judging …
Brian Cox gives his definitive assessment on the aliens discovered in Mexico Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT: I am very critical of these police officers’ behavior and police behavior generally in this post. This is sheer horror and the horror was committed by a police officer of the Ontario Provincial Police. A resident, Marcey Danae, saw the brutal killing and videoed it. This is the mentality of some police …
Canadian police officer kills a deer with an axe in suburbia on video in plain sight Read More »
The man who cloned a sheep is Prof Sir Ian Wilmut and he is in The Times obituaries today as she died on September 10, 2023 aged 79 after a long illness. I’m therefore able to say a few words about this embryologist’s famous work in which he created Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal …
The man who cloned a sheep said it would be criminally irresponsible to clone a human Read More »
NEWS AND VIEWS: Scientists in China have been able to grow kidneys that are 60% human in terms of their cellular structure inside pigs in a quest to solve the problem of supply and demand in terms of kidney transplants. They think that they might be able to grow an unlimited number of organs for …
NEWS AND VIEWS – San Sebastiano Dei Marsi, Abruzzo, Italy: Yes, the killer of a village bear is receiving death threats. The man, Andrea Leombruni, is also receiving police protection after he opened fire with a shotgun on Thursday night when Amarena, and her two cubs entered the village. They frequently did this but she …
Salami seller shot a friendly, rare bear in Italy and received death threats Read More »
Personally, I despair at the Loch Ness monster stories. They are clearly fictional and exaggerated. The Loch Ness Monster does not exist. It is just that people like to think that it might exist because it brightens up their lives. And I want to refer to the famous photograph initially taken by Col Robert Kenneth …
NEWS AND VIEWS: I am sorry but it is sad that we are so obsessed with the Loch Ness monster aka Nessie. Well, not all of us thank God but there are a large number of believers. They are the same kind of people who believe that there are big cats hiding in the British …
4 distinct noises heard in the search for Nessie Read More »
I would like to remember Lolita, the orca held in captivity for 50 years. She was due to be released into the ocean but instead she suddenly passed away. She never saw the ocean again. Her birthright, her habitat, her place to live from where she was stolen to be held captive in a large …
This very sad news story is all over the news media online today but we don’t know an awful lot about what actually happened. Donald Patience, 45, was found dead at his home in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester last Tuesday. He owned a Labradoodle dog and it is believed that burglars broke into his home with …
