What is homeopathy?

Homeopathy - there's nothing in it. People often confuse 'homeopathy' for all 'home remedies' but it's a specific kind of alternative medicine quackery that involves diluting substances til none of them remain and believing that water has 'memory', and 'like-cures-like'; neither of which are true!

Bleachgate reaches the White House

Recent events necessitate this update. Trump is now part of #Bleachgate. This is not something I expected to be writing, honestly - although recently, others have seen it coming. Content warning for child abuse. I've been preparing to do a roundup of some COVID19 stuff because it's mostly what people are talking about and there's …

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Animated Science

One of the best aspects of the the science communication-type roles I've had can be the variety. Depending on where you are and how established the team is (the team 'me' was the best!); one day writing articles, the next editing photos/doing some graphic design, web editing, interviews, filming prep, answering questions - or something …

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