tiggerthewing wrote a new blog post: Vaccines aren’t the big problem. Disease is.

Apparently there have been thirty deaths in the USA and two in Europe of women and girls who had recently been vaccinated with Gardasil. Ten of those deaths have already been proved to have been caused by something else. Over 40 million doses have been distributed world-wide. Compare that to the death rate from cervical [...]

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tiggerthewing wrote a new blog post: Science and Christianity are not incompatible.

I was raised in Europe (England – I know there are some people who don’t believe that the UK is part of Europe, but tough, I do!), was educated at a Roman Catholic primary school and went to a state Secondary school whose ethos was basically Church of England. So I studied my own religion [...]

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tiggerthewing wrote a new blog post: In praise of praise

How many people, faced with a pile of tasks, become overwhelmed and almost paralysed, unable even to work out where to start?
Is it because they can see no joy in doing the work, get no encouragement and no praise when a task is completed?
It isn’t hard to encourage someone. It is really quite easy to [...]

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tiggerthewing wrote a new blog post: Moving house

It is said to be one of the most stressful things anyone can do.
I hate it with a passion.
The last time my parents moved house, I remember vividly. I was five.
Forty-six years ago.
I left that house over sixteen years later because I got married. Since then, the longest I have stayed in one house has [...]

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