stickman's corral

A while ago, I wrote a post praising the scientific approach  that advocates of the  paleo diet appeared to be adopting in arguing their ca...

South Africa's top economic and financial daily, Business Day , ran an article yesterday referring to research conducted in part by my o...

I've developed an armchair interest in the so-called "paleo" diet . Among other things, my curiosity was piqued when Tim Noak...

Scottish microbiologist Anne Glover is the recently appointed chief science adviser to the EU. The below excerpt concerning GMO is taken fr...

Think of an important environmental issue. Now imagine that there is a large body of scientific research, underpinned by peer-reviewed liter...

Paul Krugman is the ultimate polarising force. People either love him or loathe him. I suppose that's what comes with the territory whe...

Secondary subject line: The relative prices argument for strong action against climate change. Paul Krugman must have been feeling more...

UPDATE : I stumbled upon this George Monbiot post today (Jan 24) from a few months back, discussing what seems to be a very interesting boo...