The Welsh Baccalaureate, in the words of the WJEC is “a qualification for 14 to 19 year old students in Wales.” I am 17 years old, in Year 12, studying for my A levels in Cardiff High School. We are required to study the Welsh Baccalaureate along our usual A levels. I have serious concerns about [...]
If you’re involved in the skeptical and/or atheist community, it’ll have been pretty hard to miss the University College London Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society storm in which they were asked by their union to remove this image from a promotional Facebook page for their weekly pub meet because someone had found it offensive and complained. In [...]
I find Dr Stanislaw Burzynski morally reprehensible. I think this because his treatment is sold for extortionate amounts of money to vulnerable, dying cancer patients in their last months – sometimes bringing them thousands of miles away from the majority of their family – so they can be injected with a drug that’s been in [...]
Hello all! Thanks muchly for spreading the news about Burzynski! Far too many people to name individually, though again, I must thank Robert Dougans of Bryan Cave for helping me with the legals. Just received this in my inbox. Found it rather amusing, so thought I might as well post it. Name: Russ Moores Email: [...]
You probably haven’t heard of a man named Stanislaw Burzynski. He offers a treatment called antineoplaston therapy, which he claims can treat cancer, in a centre called the Burzynski Clinic in Houston, Texas. That’s quite a claim, but the Nobel Prize Committee does not need to convene quite yet, because this treatment has been in [...]
It’s sad that I even have to point this out, but for the benefit of those who are misinformed enough to believe that my being an atheist means that I am a racist, I am here to put your troubles aside. Religions are beliefs in all-powerful supernatural being(s), especially a personal god or gods. Race [...]
The Burzynski Clinic is a clinic dedicated to treating cancer patients. It is based in Houston, Texas. It pioneers a treatment called antineoplaston therapy. Except, this treatment isn’t pioneering. It isn’t effective. It does not work. And yet, the Burzynski Clinic continue to profit off it. I am sickened and appalled that cancer patients are [...]
I sent this off to The Guardian a couple of days ago and thought I’d post it here. I had another infusion of infliximab a few days ago, but have been left wondering if “that day” has come sooner than I’d anticipated… I live with a chronic condition. It is called Crohn’s disease, a disease [...]
This is a blog post about my mental health issues. I am depressed and I have general anxiety problems. I was diagnosed with depression earlier this year. I’d been suffering with symptoms for a while – feeling sad most of the time, self-loathing, insomnia. These had been affecting me for years on and off. Only [...]
About four years ago, my friend Will and I had finished a hard day’s car cleaning. We used to go round houses offering our car cleaning services for £3 – 5, depending on the size of the car. Our customers were always happy with the service. We even made leaflets, posted them through people’s letterboxes [...]
