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Writing tagged: ‘medicine’

Inconsistency

BBC reluctant to describe homeopathy as useless.

Published 18-Nov-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: alternative medicine, bbc, bullshit, homeopathy, medicine

Reality bites

Cerebral malaria may have passed from gorillas to us.

Published 24-Sep-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: gorillas, medicine

Memory like a…

US officials recall weight loss pill Hydroxycut.

Published 02-May-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: medicine, puns

Fir he's a jolly good fellow

A five centimetre section of fir tree has been removed from a man's lung, Russian surgeons claim.

Published 16-Apr-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: medicine

Practising

Practising having my blood pressure taken to overcome my phobia.

Published 26-Jul-2001
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: jen, medicine

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On the Moor
On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk

This is a lovely book. I really enjoyed it—partly, I suspect, because I have a similar sense of humour to that of the author and also because I am generally curious about life. [...] The author is good at explanations. I like that. Eclectic—that’s what this book is. And rambling—in a good way (after all, these are walks). I liked it. I hope Richard Carter is writing another volume of his thoughts. I’ll buy it.
—Mark Avery, author and former director of conservation at the RSPB, Sunday Book Review

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