The Phrase IS the Concept: Richard Dawkins’ Originator Delusion
By Mike Sutton.
A mutual embarrassment of seemingly endless science websites, scholarly books and
journal articles all confidently assert that Richard Dawkins coined the phrase selfish gene and is therefore the originator of the basic concept [...]
164ft Zombie Rat Myth Bust
By Mike Sutton.
Mythbusting the mythbusters and their super myth making
On the 17th December the BBC (Prichard, C. 2012 ) set about debunking the old maxim that “you are never more than six feet away from a rat”.
The Six Feet From a Rat [...]
Big Secret Behind Britain’s Unit Fines Fiasco Exposed
By Mike Sutton.
In 1990 the British Government Department known as the Home Office published its Research and Planning Unit Paper 59. This contained the results of the first trial of unit fines experiments in England and Wales in four magistrates’ [...]
On Veracity: Simple Rhetoric versus Complex Causality
By Mike Sutton.
An article published in the Independent newspaper contains a conveniently plausible and compelling rhetorical explanation for the newly discovered high level British police cover up of the inadequate safety, policing [...]
Irrational Fear that Ladybugs Cause Painful Deafness is Weirdly Related to Crime Risk Knowledge
By Mike Sutton.
In today’s news in the U.K. Danielle Eccles, a British woman, suffered pain and deafness for three years until she was cured when a perfectly preserved ladybird (ladybug) fell out of her ear. So what? you might ask.
Well, for [...]
Racists in the Book Pile
By Mike Sutton.
History Text on Founding Father’s Fatherhood Found Wanting
Controversy remains and may always remain with regard to the question: Did Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and founding [...]
Zombie Cops Plague US, UK and Canadian Police Services
A Most Embarrassing British Supermyth is Bust
By Mike Sutton. Britain has been in the international news quite a lot recently. Not least for the involvement of some of its citizens and big businesses in unethical scandals. We’ve had [...]
Spin@ge II: Does the United States Department of Agriculture’s Publication of Spuriofacts Have its Origins in a Perverse Scientific Paper Written in 1937?
By Mike Sutton.
In an earlier article, Spin@ge (Sutton 2011), I revealed how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is irrationally promoting spinach as a good source of iron. This article provides some additional historical context [...]