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Golf Charlie - Get Well Soon!
I'm glad you can trust the haematologists. I do too. I'm also undergoing a second bout of treatment (beta-lymphoma) - last was 4 years ago - worked well. The cry then was "We can't cure it - but we can hold it off" - and they did. Hope this will work a second time - for both of us. My treatment causes me little trouble - indeed, the reverse. It includes 4 days of steroids - which make me 'grin like a dog and run about the city' (mistranslation of one of the Psalms). I get a lot done. And my wife is astonished, because normally she has to lead the conversation. I hadn't realised how literal the expression 'on steroids' could be.
osseo
ACK Mailman & pesadia
the UN are relying on "Diplomatic Immunity" as a means of avoiding liability for the cholera epidemic in Haiti. I fully accept there was no malice intended by the UN, that led to the epidemic, but the cover-up has led to more anguish and death ever since.
By way of contrast, Rajendra Pachauri has never let honesty and integrity prevent him from corrupting the principles of the UN, and the UN rewarded him handsomely.
The UN does not seem keen to accept responsibility for crimes against humanity, or science.
golf charlie
Mailman, perhaps he's going to the UN, the USA can't prevent that.
ACK
GC,
Why not...it would fit right in with all the other worthless junk thrown out as recycling.
Mailman
Mailman
I thought he had been locked up for rape? Surely with that conviction he can't get in to the States?
Regards
Mailman
Mailman
Rajendra pachauri set to visit USA again this month. Who is he representing, anyone have any ideas?
pesadia
re:recycling
It seems that hardly a day goes past (an almost certainly not a week!) without some accumulated pile of recycling spontaneously combusting somewhere in the UK.
The weaponising of the byzantine rules about waste implemented by the Environment Agency have driven the processing of all sorts of "end of life items" into a frenzy of true wastefulness littered with rules designed to be impossible to comply with....(and hence generating income in fines....)
Most people in the UK seem to have been convinced that recycling is a sacred duty and their little bit of "saving the planet" and municipal idjits have been hosing public funds to maintain the delusion - the reality behind the sanctimony is another matter altogether.
I sometimes am astonished at the near OCD arrangement of bits and bobs that folk put out on the pavement for "recycling"
tomo
ACK, EM & Dung, thank you for your kind comments!
stewgreen 10:29, should Climate Science be put in the recycling bin or landfilled/incinerated?
golf charlie
@JJ - many thanks for the Dieter Helm link - I will follow it - when I have time.
I have started reading my bloke (Hart). 'Heavyweight' is perhaps overstating it ('cruiserweight'?). A Canadian academic - humanities rather than science - been following matters for a decade, and (as far as I've got) seems plausible and well-referenced. He doesn't pull his punches - possibly a little too close to 'conspiracy theory' for my taste. But he makes a broad case about public mistrust of 'science' (or 'scientists'). This is a rising topic - see for example the new editor of 'Science' expressing concern, looking for answers (mine, to distinguish between agreed science and agreed policy?).
Interesting that Hart's book was turned down by his usual academic publishers - so he's had to self-publish (may account for affordable price?). Cp Nigel Lawson...
osseo
osseo, thank you and best wishes. I am also "uncurable", but "manageable". I am full of praise for the Doctors and Nurses in the NHS, and most of the frontline staff involved in patient care and support.
The Administrative Management Administrators and their IT systems, seem very good at economising on patient care and support, whilst increasing their own importance. C. Northcote Parkinson would be dismayed to see his parodies preserved for posterity.