In the 1930s, the United States Food and Drug Administration was a mere shadow of its current incarnation, skimpy and ineffectual, with a few dozen agents scuttling around mainly trying to curb excessive profit-making within their limited jurisdiction. There were no laws that needed drug manufacturers to list all ingredients, no laws that called for [...]
These days I usually steer clear of creationists. The reason is that I know that I am not going to change any “pure” creationist’s mind in a couple of hours. Creationists almost by definition have closed minds. They start with a religious premise that is assumed to be true and then try to weave evidence [...]
All of us are rightly spewing indignation and anger at the spineless machinations of India’s politicians regarding the proposed Indo-US nuclear deal. However it is also instructive to take a look at what the technical and strategic issues and their implications are. The issues are admittedly complex, but as I sifted through some of the [...]
Part of the reason I made the trip to London in September was a single goal; to stand at a particular traffic light near the British Museum and take a photo of myself standing there…
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Nuclear terrorism forms an important part of the armamentarium of one of the Bush administration’s favourite pastimes- threat inflation. While it is true that the potential damage that terrorists could cause with even a 1 kT nuclear weapon is tremendous…
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