Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Preamble In 2012 I explored the nature of expertise in an article that was mainly focused on expert witness expertise. A deeper exploration was triggered today when I discovered a statement made by the Care Quality Commission. Scroll down for more. This article will delve deep into the issues of experts and expertise, and prove ...
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Right – so I moved out of Northern Ireland a few weeks ago. That was not an easy decision. Eventually the ‘pain’ of staying in that job exceeded the ‘pleasures’ of Northern Ireland. Calm down – in case your imagination based on some script begins to run wild. Overview on NI experience Northern Ireland is ...
The world is catching up on stuff I wrote about years ago. Oh yes – this is just one strand of evidence. Unfortunately, for those who need manually assisted alimentation, I’m not summarising the video (which could well disappear in time).
Guilty by Reason of Sanity, is coming! I’m putting out some previews into the public domain. It is a lot of work happening on this. I’m proofing every word of it using text to speech techniques built into Windows 11 and some from Text Aloud. Call me a cheapskate – I’ve been called worse – ...
You couldn’t make it up! The story below is truly beyond ridiculous. But.. but it comes on the back of two other recent investigations (see below). You’d think that ‘they’d be more cautious’ but no. See the Panorama investigation into Edenfield in the last quarter of 2022 (full credits to the BBC). Sorry, it cannot ...
Dog-bathers are running for cover!! OMG! Like 3 hours of video? “No way!”, I hear them screaming as they zip off like The Roadrunner from Looney Tunes! ?? Or there is the other group who want everything in 5 words. GET LOST NOW! Well the shear stupidity of large systems and people in the above ...
Today I’m proud to have been called a conspiracy theorist. That means I was just about a year early. Well, you looked down the page, and thought “He’s among his own kind – so there!” It is fine. As I’ve said a zillion times before ‘truth and reality are my only friends!‘ Well, when I ...
This is not a tutorial or advice. The infographic below is a broad-brush summary of some of the complex issues that need to be considered when prescribing medications. It is not exhaustive. This is not meant to be used by patients or the lay public to make decisions. It may serve as a template for ...
The result of MRI scan has shown something that ‘may’ be a cancer. That’s brought me closer to my mortality. And – I nauseatingly re-iterate that ‘time is our most precious asset’. Hence, I have and will continue until the very end, to deal short shrift to idiots who intend to waste seconds or hours ...
Getting straight into it – a BBC reporter went undercover for 3 months and exposed all manner of abuse at Edenfield Unit in Prestwich. Unfortunately for the lazy, they’d have to watch the whole video to know what happened. Hats off to the BBC for this brilliant piece of work. They achieved more than any ...
The words in the title of this post ‘guilty by reason of sanity‘ cannot be found on Google without other words before or after. You can find ‘Not’ in front of the words. What is it It is the title of a book, I’m considering writing. What motivates the title is that on many occasions, ...
Some will be reaching for Google and dictionaries on this. Some fine examples of Barnum statements, “Humans a not perfect“, or “Everybody makes mistakes – are you perfect?” or “Not everybody is a scientist.” The words seem to hold a truth held dear by ordinary people. But in essence they lack depth by the way ...
Oh dear me. I’ve made somebody unhappy by causing a chippy shop smell in a kitchen. Well, there’s always a first time as they say. So what’s the story? I’m living in shared accommodation at a hospital for work purposes. That’s nothing new as I’ve done this on few occasions before. Dr X was unpleasantly ...
This is no joke. I’ve been looking for a particular brand and taste of chocolate milk for 50 years. And now I’ve found it. When I was a young child I used to enjoy it cold, in cans labelled C-CMEL. After searching intermittently for years, I could not find it anywhere on the net. So ...
1 – Politics can bend science. 2 – Politics can bend minds. 3 – Politics can cover up the truth. 4 – Mathematics and the truth are good friends. 5 – Mathematics cannot be bent by politics. 6 – The truth will always prevail, even if delayed by politics. 7 – Bent minds create bent statistics*, ...
Humans are driven by various things. Some will again be jumping on the net to Google everything, instead of thinking. Those who read pop-psychology will be about to lecture me on ‘needs’ which drive people i.e. things like primary (as per Freud) and secondary needs (as per Maslow). I have no argument that people need ...
This is a very short take. The British Medical Journal created an interactive map. See it embedded (legally) below. I’m already expecting anyone reading this to go, “It’s confusing… I’m not a doctor!” Am bovverrrred? This infographic will display on browsers that support iframes.
This weekend I was busy completing a course on creativity in problem solving. I completed it. It was meant to take only about 4 weeks but it took me 6 months. There was no limit of time. In any case I read and think deeply about 90-odd percent of the materials and links they provide. ...
Oh dear – in the last week the meme factory has been in overdrive after Nicky Minaj tweeted as below. This sparked side splitting laughter all over the net! Minaj is such an expert that, the Minister of Health in Trinidad had to fact check what she said on Twitter – then blamed Minaj ...
I did a post on ‘everybody‘, some time ago. Now it is time to cover ‘everyone’. Ahhh.. some will be tearing their hair out wondering what’s the difference between ‘everybody’ and ‘everyone’. Keep tearing away. I’m gonna give a story about ‘everyone’. Read it or leave it. What do I care. It is my blog ...
What people want is a simple answer that will put them back on a track that they should have been on. I’ve seen it before and I’ve seen it today 13th June 2021 again, between 17:45 to 18:10PM. In essence someone who referred to me as a ‘friend’ – and I am not their friend ...
If someone declares that they have a mental disorder, most other people know that they’re to respond with sympathy. Of course, I expect to hear ‘Not necessarily‘, ‘It depends‘, and ‘not everybody‘ etc etc. Well stuff it – when anybody declares that they have depression, I know the reactions I see. Nobody has authority over ...
People believe that they’re living their own lives. I’ve come to think that they are not – for the most part. Life is about living the time between birth and death. What you do with that time is important. People find different purposes in life: Some want to contribute to society and so their time might ...
In what ways would one want to shape or reshape his life? Financial security/burden Maintain good health or treat disease. Have more time for leisure and personal interests. What is one’s life? Life is about living as a human. There is something about living in the human body – its psychology, physicality, spirituality. Living is ...
This report is 100% honest, and is quite probably caught on more than one CCTV camera. I’m naming Aldi and if they want to sue for defamation, bring it on! Their lawyers are advised in advance to read up on the law of defamation and that I have my lawyers ready for them. I was ...
In conversations with people, I often hear the following kinds of statements: I’m just not motivated to do [blah blah]. I know I need to do it. It is the right thing to do but I don’t have the discipline. I’m not organised. Maybe as time catches up I’ll find the energy. I’m a creative ...
In the pandemic period loads of services are reduced. Most of the big food shops are open – and that’s fine – I’m supposed to say. FFS. When you get to public services, trust me it is a right mess. I’m talking about health and social care services mostly. ‘Everything’ is basically down to a ...
Oh well, as I do on a Sunday morning (2021-01-31) I read many of the broadsheets and some tabloids. There’s so much going on the world these days, it is very difficult to decide what to focus on. You could spend your life reading everything on COVID-19 (Cornavirus or SARS-Cov-2). But I came across an ...
The following is my response to an article in the FT on 2020-12-26. Tough if you don’t have access. I felt compelled to respond, but I’m not sure why – as it is none of my business to educate the masses of mainly stupid people! So I’ve been wondering, “Why do I bother?”. I’ll think ...
