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Drink Spiking: Why So Little Is Still Known about This Horrifying Trend

Lata Gautam Anglia Ruskin University Lata’s research interests and expertise lie in the chromatographic and mass spectrometric analysis of drugs of abuse and pharmaceutical compounds from different sample types (blood, urine, hair). The reopening of clubs and pubs has been accompanied by alarming reports of drink spiking – deliberately adding

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Veteran’s Body Used for Grisly Hipster Sideshow

Veteran’s Body Used for Grisly Hipster Sideshow

Someone who donates their body to scientific research might have a reasonable expectation their remains will be put to some useful purpose. Training medical students, perhaps. Even being turned into a crash-test dummy might ultimately save lives. Whatever the science-minded deceased might have expected, being turned into a grotesque sideshow

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Peterson Blasts COVID Mandates

Peterson Blasts COVID Mandates

Sarah Taylor from Blaze Media reports on what Jordan Peterson thinks about Covid mandates. In an interview with Dave Rubin, Peterson said that he believes the U.S. is quickly moving to a state of totalitarianism due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “The thing that surprised me the most, probably,

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… steampunk (noun): science fiction dealing with 19th-century societies dominated by historical or imagined steam-powered technology Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : “I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for [Tim]

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Tidal Turbines Could Generate 11% Of the UK’s Power – New Research

Tidal Turbines Could Generate 11% Of the UK’s Power – New Research

Danny Coles University of Plymouth Danny is a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering). He works on the INTERREG Tidal Stream Industry Energiser (TIGER) project. His research investigates aspects of tidal stream energy such as cost reduction, system integration, and resource

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Who Are We?

Who Are We?

Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the third of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for dis-harmony. An

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… coeval (adjective): of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Coeval comes to English from the Latin word coaevus, meaning “of the same age.” “Coaevus” was formed by combining the “co-” prefix (“in or to the same degree”) with Latin

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… responsive (adjective): 1 : giving response 2 : quick to respond or react appropriately or sympathetically 3 : using responses Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Responsive comes from the joining of Latin responsus with the suffix -ivus, which gave English -ive. That suffix changes verbs into adjectives, as in

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Misinformation

Misinformation

Let me take you back to September when the great Siouxsie Wiles was caught out breaking Level 4 lockdown rules by sitting on a beach with a friend, who then went swimming. In spite of there being a video of these very events, Wiles responded by warning people about ‘misinformation‘

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… word inflammable (adjective): Inflammable describes things that can easily catch fire. It also means “easily excited or angered.” Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Combustible and incombustible are opposites, but flammable and inflammable are synonyms. How can that be? The in- of incombustible is a common prefix

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The Media Is Running Scared

The Media Is Running Scared

It started with this, last week: And yesterday, we had an article from Jason Walls on the same subject: But recently, there’s been a stark and worrying change in the level of animosity directed at journalists.   Yesterday morning, for example, my partner woke me up to tell me someone’

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… adversary (noun, adjective): noun : one that contends with, opposes, or resists : an enemy or opponent adjective 1 : of, relating to, or involving an enemy or adversary 2 : having or involving antagonistic parties or opposing interests Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : If you’ve ever had someone

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Bullied Boy Now Thriving

Bullied Boy Now Thriving

righttolife.org.uk An Australian boy who went viral after a tragic video of him after being bullied went viral, is now thriving as a campaigner & influencer. 10-year-old Quaden Bayles, who was born with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, went viral last year when mother Yarraka Bayles

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Coerced into Having Sex with Trans Women

Chris Sweeney rt.com Chris Sweeney is an author and columnist who has written for newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, The Sun and the Daily Record, along with several international-selling magazines. Information Op-Ed A trans woman is not a biological woman and, when it comes to sexual attraction,

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