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nwhyte Feb 11, 2010 00:04

Constitutional crumbs from the Prime Minister are not enough | openDemocracy

Peter Facey, who is criticised here, is an old friend of mine but Barnett's objections seem pretty sound to me.

nwhyte Feb 10, 2010 00:08

nwhyte Feb 09, 2010 00:04

nwhyte Feb 04, 2010 00:06

Lancet accepts MMR study 'false'

The medical journal which originally published the discredited research linking autism and MMR has now issued a full retraction of the paper - and how many children have died as a result?

(tags: autism)

nwhyte Jan 27, 2010 00:08

Stop demanding that you get screwed
The only hope you have of ever seeing another pay raise is if Congress passes health care reform. Without health care reform, the increasing cost of your health insurance will swallow this year's raise. And next year's raise. And pretty soon it won't stop with just your raise. Without health care ( Read more... )

nwhyte Jan 11, 2010 00:05

reading_gibbon: Chapter XVI: Early Christianity and the emperors

A run through the historical record, staring with Tacitus on Nero's blaming the Christians for the Great Fire, then Pliny on his administrative problems in Bithynia, then a long section on Cyprian (who I think gets more coverage than any other non-emperor); then a ( Read more... )

nwhyte Jan 08, 2010 00:05

nwhyte Jan 04, 2010 00:05

reading_gibbon: Chapter XV: Early Christianity
The growth of Christianity "was most effectually favoured and assisted by the five following causes: I. The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead ( Read more... )

nwhyte Dec 28, 2009 00:04

nwhyte Dec 27, 2009 00:03

Reading Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" - Chapter XIV: The Rise of Constantine

Diocletian's system does not long survive his abdication. His four succesors squabble among themselves, and at one point there are six mutually recognised rulers of different bits of the Roman Empire. But one of them, Constantine, defeats all the others, ( Read more... )