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Every time a major Christian festival comes around there is a flurry of posts on social media about how this festival was originally a pagan feast which was stolen by the Church. Not all great feast days, only those secular society has figured out how to make money out of. The Martyrdom of Peter and …

Rings of Power review. Can it really be this bad? First, let’s get past the accusations from some media organisations that customer disappointment with the series is based on racism. It is not. As anyone will realise who has actually read the reviews, complaints about the inclusion of “persons of colour” form a small part …

Lost Ark Fairy Lullaby Island Song of Resonance Forest Minuet Guide To progress some parts of Lost Ark, you need the sheet music Forest Minuet. If you are looking for Forest Minuet, you may get frustrated about timing for the entrance to the secret area on Lullaby Island. The relevant quest is called It’s OK …

Getting vaccinated is important. It protects you and the people around you. It’s not just a personal choice. We all have a responsibility to care for the most vulnerable in our communities. I replied a few days ago to a post on Facebook which claimed vaccines didn’t work, and are unnecessary because there are good, …

I am going to give up trying to counter anti-vax fantasies on social media. While I remain alarmed by the volume of misinformation, and the harm this has the potential to do, it has become clear that anti-vaxxers are either invincibly stupid, or simply don’t care about the harm they do. Nothing dents their obscene …

I continue to be frustrated by the sheer tidal wave of misinformation on social media about COVID19 and vaccination. Not at all with people who have doubts or questions. Given the horror stories that floating around Facebook and Twitter, and the fact that we tend to be more influenced by what we see more often, …

I am still astonished by people who claim COVID-19 is “just the flu” or even worse, “the whole thing is made up.” To believe this, you have to believe that every government in the world, every university and medical research foundation, and almost every medical practitioner, are either stupid, or involved in a conspiracy to …

If one million people are vaccinated with the new COVID-19 vaccine over the next year, this is what we can expect: 4500 will develop an invasive cancer. 1600 will die from cancer. About 250 will develop Bell’s Palsy (facial paralysis). 1,000 will be diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. About 500 will suffer from Encephalitis (brain inflammation). …

Sometimes it is not only reasonable, but morally imperative, to point out that the lives of a particular group of people matter. It would have been right in Turkey in 1915 to shout as loudly as possible that Armenian lives mattered. In Germany in 1944 that Jewish lives mattered. Or today in South Africa that …