A few years ago, I came off the phone and was met with the comment of, “Good Grief, you and your mum can talk when you get going – what was that? Two hours?” “Actually, it wasn’t my mum,” I replied. “It was Trevor Baylis.” A short pause in the conversation. And then; “What? Trevor […]
We Need To Talk About…. Scientific Research. Or not.
We live with a man who frequently rants about the uselessness of most academic studies. When he isn’t shrieking at those poor beleaguered clever-sorts who are ushered into the media spotlight, on the telly or on the radio (i.e. “Your rising inflection is killing me!”, “Why the hell do these so-called experts always have to […]