April 2009
8 posts
Post-inspiration Madness
The other day I took an hour out of my afternoon to have a talk with a professor from the university where I was an undergraduate. I was hoping to discuss my chances, or lack thereof, of doing a research degree sometime in the near future, and one of the pieces of advice she gave took me a little by surprise. I realised later that it shouldn’t have. What she said was that I needed to frame my...
Ben Goldacre and stealing Matthias Rath
What is it about the quacks and the charlatans that even the most despicable of their brethren have strange and terrifying names that us ordinary folk can’t aspire to? Here, linked below, is the story of Mathias Rath, as told by one of my biggest British Heroes, Ben Goldacre.
Ben just released a book called Bad Medicine, and he has just released one chapter of it online for people to read and use...
March 2009
49 posts
1 tag
The Quest For Yo Mamma
Hi there, Maternal Fakocity readers! Remember me? Yes, I know it’s been awhile. I bet you want to know why there hasn’t been a comic from me in a while and what the future of the site is, huh? Oh, you don’t… want to play a game anyway? See, I decided the best way to share this info would be to hide it at the end of a Choose Your Own Adventure style quest. The quest begins below: take it if...