Wales was a country which, for its modest size, produced people of considerable talent. I much enjoyed Dr. Steve Jones’s rewrite of The Origin ‘Almost Like a Whale’ and have had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Tony Campbell who did illuminating work on the flourescing jellyfish protein aequorin and applied it to biomedical diagnosis.
How sad that this country’s legislature now appears to have begun cultivating idiots.
They have made an award of £4500 a pair of psychics who will, at a time of extreme recession, ‘will use it to instruct people on how to contact friends and relatives “on the other side”.’
The full story of a country taking a proud history and applying fingerpaint like a three year old is here
I am sure that Aneurin Bevan, father of the welfare state would become Aneurism Bevan, were he alive to see such nonsense.
Fom the piece: The mediums themselves confess to being “surprised” at securing the grant.
Yer think they’d have seen it coming.
Indeed. A good point wittily made.
As someone trying to raise funds for something that would actually benefit society, I am just too disgusted by this news to find any words. So, in lieu of Henry’s dog, bunny of DOOM and/or chickens, I give you a not-GFP-but-nonetheless-fluorescent picture I took during my PhD of a Drosophila melanogaster embryo:
Make that S11 egg chamber. Sheesh.