'Nutters' Category
Director Quits Over Creationist Comments
So Michael Reiss, the Royal Societies director of education, has now resigned after having caused much anger after suggesting that science teachers should teach creationist beliefs “not as a misconception but as a world view“. His views were accurately described as outrageous by Nobel Prize Winner, Sir Richard Roberts. It was felt that Michael Reiss’s [...]
Listed buildings eco-scandal: English Heritage ‘a disgrace’
Do you live in a listed building? The Nurse does. But her home is no picture postcard… she often wonders, in her more cynical moments, who on earth dreamed up the idea of listing a prison. But then again, maybe it isn’t that much of a surprise. The UK’s listed buildings regulations contravene common sense and logic in [...]
Intelligent design gets a plain language pasting!
The Nurse has always thought the concept of god was a bit silly. As a small child in the ’70s she was sent home from junior school with a note saying that a girl who didn’t believe in god shouldn’t come to the christmas party. But she stuck to her guns. So, a lifelong atheist, The Nurse has followed the US’s acrimonious intelligent [...]
I Know of a Pig Named Mohammed
I felt prompted to write this post in response to the arrest of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons in Sudan. My Amateur Brain Surgery Club colleague (The Nurse) also appears to have been spurred into responding to this incident by changing her name to ‘The Blessed Virgin Mary’ and changing the name of the prison cat [...]
