13.39
Bredonborough.
Minx the Nurse removed stiches from two sites of recent mole-removal.
The neighbours adjacent to HQ arrived last night from South London, and their removal lorry arrived just after eleven. They are recently retired, although Mrs. Neighbour grew up in the house & her Mother continues to live in town.
The Minx, in addition to a day’s interviews, health provision, and ongoing forms of various business, has made bread. This is Bread of Wonder, Delight, Joy & A Regular System Bread and is cooling…
… in front of the Fripp’s Toilet Soaps bowl…
Off to DGM HQ.
17.17 DGM HQ.
The Vicar is in SoundWorld I with yesterday’s enhancements to Songbook No. 1: a brass section. He is in an upbeat mood as a result of his Hovis Moment.
In the Chamber of Venality an in-box of 260 is waiting for my attention but I have left my reading spectacles in Bredonborough. What a dope.
17.50 From an e-correspondent…
British Association for the Advancement of Science
Theories of telepathy and afterlife cause uproar at top science forum
The Times September 06, 2006 By Mark Henderson, Science Editor
SCIENTISTS claiming to have evidence of life after death and the powers of
telepathy triggered a furious row at Britain¹s premier science festival
yesterday. Organisers of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science (the BA) were accused of lending credibility to maverick theories on
the paranormal by allowing the highly controversial research to be aired
unchallenged.
Leading members of the science establishment criticised the BA¹s decision to
showcase papers purporting to demonstrate telepathy and the survival of
human consciousness after someone dies. They said that such ideas, which are
widely rejected by experts, had no place in the festival without challenge
from sceptics.
The disputed session featured research from Rupert Sheldrake, an independent biologist who is funded by Trinity College, Cambridge, that claims to have found evidence that some people know telepathically who is calling them before they answer the telephone.
Other presentations came from Peter Fenwick, a doctor who thinks deathbed
visions suggest that consciousness survives when people die, and from
Deborah Delanoy of the University of Hertfordshire, whose work suggests that people can affect the bodies of others by thinking about them.
Critics including Lord Winston and Sir Walter Bodmer, both former presidents of the BA, expressed particular alarm that the three speakers were allowed to hold a promotional press conference. Some said telepathy has already been found wanting in experiments, and had no place at a scientific meeting.
“Work in this field is a complete waste of time,”said Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. “though it is politically incorrect to dismiss ideas out of hand, in this case there is absolutely no reason to suppose that telepathy is anything more than a charlatan’s fantasy. “
So much for preternatural sensitivities, then; and proof that the Venal Heartless Raging Old Goat is, in performance mode, not only raging & heartless & an old goat but delusional as well.
20.35 The third draft compilation of Churchscapes is underway. Time is on hold.
"We only have what we give away."
