My Opinions

I am a scientist. This is a way of life, an investigation into what makes the world go round. Ideas of the world have to rely on repeatable experiment:- I say something and give a method by which it can be tested. Anybody must be able to repeat the experiment and get the same answer, until someone comes up with a better idea and method of proof

I do not believe in god. It is not because of the above but because no being could stand by and inflict randomly good and bad on his creation.

Every time I hear the news about Ireland my blood runs cold. I would ban all marches that advocate one religion or another, and white wash all the partisan murals that decorate the buildings in Northern Ireland.

You cannot patent a gene. A patent is supposed to protect the inventor of something from being copied. A gene is not an invention. Galileo could not patent the moons of Jupiter. You could patent a method of refining or identifiyng a gene you should not be able to patent a discovery.

Science cannot be confined. Some science has led to unpleasent consequences; the A Bomb, biological and germ warfare. But it has also led to the miracle of modern western society; global transport, communications, medicine, etc. Some modern research may be anathema to some people but we can never forsee the results good or bad.

Seems to me that nowadays the government and opposition parties are complaining about electoral turnout too much. They go on and on about explaining their policies better than they have. If they want to increase turnout there are two ways to do it; the carrot or the stick. As an experiment for the next two elections they could reward voters with a financial encentive say £10 for voting. After evaluating if this has worked then they could continue with this practice, if it did not meet some prescirbed target then go for the stick; people would be required to provide proof of having voted to their employer / money provider that they have voted or else the employer would have to deduct a percentage of their weeks wage as a vote tax. I bet that would get them out to vote.

We should legalize Cannabis because it is less harmful than the drugs we are allowed to use at the moment (alcohol and tobacco). The money spent on trying to pursue users and dealers is supporting crime syndicates world wide, subsidising their other more dangerous businesses (slavery, human trafficking, arms e.t.c.) and see this link myths
Your comments and opinions are welcome.....