A place of pontificating about chemistry-related subjects ranging from relatively innocuous food frauds to such catastrophic events as global warming, passing through pollution, toxic food additives (a favourite), harmful medications, corporate subterfuge, government demagogy and all manner things frightening and depressing: if you don't want to subscribe to my feed, I somewhat understand.
Dr. X., former researcher, currently a corporate engineering drone, part-time professional writer, long-time sceptic.
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July 14, 2006
Category: Idle
Shift the concept lightly, but things went more or less like this: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060713.html Which incidentally betokens that, in spite of such examples of amazing stupidity as the Johnny Hart one Pharyngula unearthed, the comics world can still produce something to please scientists and other brain users. Amen to that.Posted by Dr. X at 04:52 PM •
June 20, 2006
Category: Meta
A few guidelines for those who wish to see their comments published on this blog; silent readers need not bother with the following.Posted by Dr. X at 04:00 PM • 1 Comments
June 18, 2006
Category: Inpharmy
Being in Copenhagen a while ago, I happened to read an interview to Reninhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, one of the most brilliant zoologists of the 20th century; as is the case with most zoologists, brilliant or not, very few people have heard his name. The piece dealt mostly with marine invertebrates, a subject I personally find fascinating (as you might have inferred from my previous post), but which I imagine would knock most of my readers down within two-three lines. Anyhow, something that illustrious scientist said struck me, and not in a good way. Here it is: [the disappearance of rainforests] is destroying many forms of life, including plants that could be useful to the pharmaceutical industry. This is a very sad statement; not so much because of its subject, but because it betokens the humiliation of science in front of the selfish morons which constitute the common public. It seems that the only way people can understand why biodiversity oughtn't to be massacred is the possibility that it will give pharmaceutical companies a chance to find a better cure for haemorrhoids. Well, as you will see many times in this blog in the future, counting on pharmaceutical companies for anything good, including saving rainforests, is a truly foolish idea. Here are a couple of reasons why:Posted by Dr. X at 10:21 AM • 4 Comments
June 13, 2006
Category: Idle
Namely: Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?Posted by Dr. X at 05:00 PM • 1 Comments
May 26, 2006
Category: Meta
My honourable colleagues, my possibly cantankerous readers, hello to you. I am at this point trying to figure out the system, so bear with the somewhat minimalistic style of this page; in a couple of days, I count on being able to spoon out a sensible layout, sensible content or, possibly, both. For the time being, bear with me; my archives are at www.chemblog.hotserv.dk, and you can refer to that site for the next couple of days.Posted by ScienceBlogs Admin at 05:47 PM • 1 Comments
