tomo,

Yes, nothing between them. Some furniture will be rearranged and service will resume as normal.

Thanks for the Salk vs. Sabin video. Good viewing. I knew there was rivalry, but didn't know how spiteful it had been. So the business of using the imprimatur of "science" as a veil for naked politics isn't such a new thing. Well, I suppose it's not that much of a surprise.

Ross Lea,

I didn't get past the FT paywall, but I gather it's the same story that JoNova is reporting this morning. I thought the video of the fellow was refreshing to hear, though I didn't agree with everything he said. Disgraceful that he got cancelled, but hardly a surprise. You might get away with a bit of heresy, but no chance with outright blasphemy.

TinyCO2,

I suspect the tracking pills are only short-range. A GSM transmitter might be packed into a small enough volume, but the antenna would be a challenge, power supply too. It's probably not going to help out in the community, but it might give the Nurse Ratcheds of the world a quieter life.

On Google search, it's that advertisers pay Google to make the search worse. I helped my brother with his car a while back. We had previously found an excellent wiring diagram drawn by an enthusiast but, even with very clear search terms, Google insisted on presenting us with umpteen companies that had scanned car manuals and would provide access for a fee. We found the desired diagram straight away using Bing.

Reading comments at EconTalk, I thought this one was well worth reading. He's a US doctor explaining why he doesn't want more money sloshing into medicine there. Sounds like they've got a case of pernicious bureaucratitis, just like the rest of us. So much for public vs. private.

Here's an odd bit of trivia. I've been skimming through a 1960 high school chemistry text. One fact it states is that 1ml = 1.000028 cm^3. Not true today, or when I was learning about it, but 1960 was when SI was published, so I guess that small difference lasted from revolutionary France until 1960. Surely it should have been fixed sooner. A 28 ppm error wouldn't hurt a lot of calculations, but it must have eaten into the advantages over the imperial system.

I think Google search has been getting worse for years but not just for non woke stuff. I'm regularly annoyed to be unable to find stuff I've seen before, despite being very precise. Amazon is even worse to the point I've abandoned it for books and shop at ebay instead.

tomo, I can't disagree with any of that but all the more reason not to be afraid of medical kit spying on people. Google weather can't locate me to more than an area of 10 square miles on a good day. For three months I apparently lived in Bognor Regis which is a long way from Warrington or any of the places I visited at the time. The NHS is even worse. It has long and detailed histories on people's ailments and yet still manage to give allergic people antibiotics.

I can see legitimate reasons for pills with the ability to report. How many attacks occur because a person is 'off their meds'? Although the paranoid are already scared of being tracked. Of course there is already Colon capsule endoscopy that involves swallowing a tiny camera about the size of a large vitamin pill. As the capsule travels through the bowel it takes thousands of pictures that are sent wirelessly to a digital recording device worn over the shoulder like a small shoulder bag.

For a society that is now almost permanently and voluntarily carrying trackable devices, being afraid of tech filled pills is silly.

This is all too typical of what happens to people who talk sense on Climate.

https://www.ft.com/content/8e1a16ea-bf63-45f8-81af-dc41c0df4e06

Cancel culture.