Dubious statistics Journalists love to use single numbers, they do it all the time: Three British women will get pioneering womb transplants 4,000 foreign criminals including murderers and rapists we can’t throw out NHS hospitals save £400,000 by switching to same brand of surgical gloves But single numbers are meaningless. People quote point metrics and […]
Global Warming? Pah!
I am sitting in my office, slowly turning blue, looking at a good 4 inches of snow. I thought it was supposed to be getting warmer, the ice caps should be melting and half of East Anglia is going to be under water, yet here I am slowly freezing to death. Clearly the scientists are […]