About

I’m professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in Nottingham, and an NHS consultant. My old site www.igreens.org.uk was mainly about free-market environmentalism and canoeing. Ripe-tomato.org is more about poetry, sex, and questionable science.

Poetry – Nothing original,  just comments on poems I like. I like Philip Larkin. e.g. here

Sex – No porn. Just the variety of human sexual behavior. e.g. here

Free-market environmentalism – people look after stuff they own better than stuff in common ownership. Private forests, fisheries and game parks do better than state-owned ones (e.g. here). And we generally have too much government. Most problems would be improved if the state withdrew from an area, rather than imposing new interventionist solutions. e.g. here

Questionable science is sloppy, fraudulent, wasteful, self-serving or unethical research. There’s plenty of it. e.g. here

Currently (August 2016) I’m cross about people who encourage hormone replacement therapy after the menopause (e.g. here), most screening for common cancers (e.g. here), and the shocking ideas that we should encourage African mothers to circumcise their baby boys in the hope that one day it’ll prevent them getting HIV. e.g. here, or that cutting newborn babies’ tongues will help feeding here.

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