Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Good news from South Africa

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Excellent news from South Africa (for a change). See http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN351191.html and http://www.tac.org.za/communit...
Friday, June 13, 2008

Curse update...

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In the article below I challenged the amazing Lord Jaffa to curse me: Give it your best, see if you can have some noticeable effect on me. ...
Friday, June 06, 2008

Curse me if you dare - Botswana Guardian

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Readers of local newspapers will perhaps have come across a strange advertisement from the so-called Lord Jaffa. His ad offers a range of ...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Simple or true? - Botswana Guardian

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There’s a big difference between an idea that is simple and one that can be expressed simply. Although scientists often describe a theory ...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Can’t he do better than that? - Botswana Guardian

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In a letter to the Guardian on 11th April we saw the return of Bugalo Chilume. As Voltaire said about God, if Chilume didn't exist he...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Homeopathy - Letter to Mmegi

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I was appalled to see the article entitled "People living with HIV turn to homeopathy" in Mmegi on Thursday 28th February. Appal...

Scence is blind - Botswana Guardian

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Saying something out loud doesn't make it true. Writing something in a newspaper doesn't make it true. Even just believing somet...
Friday, February 01, 2008

A cure for everything? - Botswana Guardian

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It really is getting worse. In the past I’ve been irritated by the nonsense from various organisations trying to sell their useless rubbis...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Shouting fire? - Botswana Guardian

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Do we have a right to unrestricted free speech? Well, most of us would instinctively say that yes, of course we do, we live in a democracy...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Barry Eustice – a personal tribute

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Barry Eustice died last week and Botswana is a slightly poorer country because of it. Barry was well-known throughout Botswana for his...
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Friday, September 07, 2007

A change of career? - Botswana Guardian

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I think I’m going to train to be a lawyer. I know 43 might be a little old for a career change but I’ve spent some time recently reading o...
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Friday, August 03, 2007

Alternative medicine can cause alternative illness - Botswana Guardian

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It goes on and on. The parade of rubbish, nonsense and drivel masquerading as “alternative medicine”. In the Advertiser last week two ad...
Friday, March 23, 2007

We’re being invaded - Botswana Guardian

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No, I’m not talking about Zimbabweans, I think we’re under threat from something much more dangerous than illegal aliens, health charlatans ...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Colour blindness

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It occurred to me that HIV, wickedness and ignorance all have something in common. They are all colour-blind. HIV can’t see in colou...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Medical malpractice?

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Last week Gilbert Sesinyi wrote a response to a letter I wrote. I had objected to his idea that doctors and medicine were the source of ou...
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A reply from Gilbert Sesinyi in the Botswana Guardian " Doctors do as they’re taught ". Rest assured a response has been submitted...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

Be wary of doctors?

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I read with surprise and some degree of outrage the column by Gilbert Sesinyi last week in the Botswana Guardian. His piece entitled “ Be ...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

Xenophobia - Botswana Guardian

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I’ve been thinking about xenophobia. We can’t avoid it these days, it’s one of those fashionable words that suddenly become the in thing. ...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

Religious punchups

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I’ve been experiencing a mixture of amusement and sadness following the recent arguments in the Botswana Guardian between Muslim and Christi...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Detox your brain - Botswana Guardian

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I’ve now twice seen a simultaneously hilarious and depressing bit of nonsense on DSTV, along, probably, with the rest of southern Africa . ...
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