Sing A Song Of Science : Blaze Away
Blaze away can mean 'fire at will'. In that sense, let's keep 'blazing away' at pseudoscience.
Blaze away can also mean 'burn away', 'be consumed in flame'.
Two recent news items regarding pseudoscience gives cause for celebration as we watch a couple of our troubles blaze away.
#1 - The man who single-handedly triggered the autism / jabs scare, Andrew Wakefield, has been struck off by the GMC
#2 - A protest was organised for Saturday 30th Jan 2010 against hoeopathic 'medicines' being sold by the UK's #1 retail outlet, Boots. 10:23 Homeopathy - there's nothing in it is the campaign slogan. The choice of 10:23 refers to Avogadro's number -
6.0221415 × 1023
At 12C you pass what is known as the Avogadro Limit, the point at which there is likely nothing of your original substance left.
By the time you reach 30C, you have more chance of winning the lottery five weeks running than you have of finding a single caffeine molecule in your homeopathic sleeping draft. It's just ordinary water, dripped onto ordinary sugar.
http://www.1023.org.uk/what-is-homeopathy.php
Victory is never final in human affairs, but let's celebrate anyway. Let's hand out the e-beers, make an e-fire of our troubles, and watch them Blaze Away
We'll make a bonfire of our troubles
and we'll watch them blaze away
and when they've all gone up in smoke clouds,
we'll never worry should they come another day
and as the bonfire keeps on burning,
happy days will be returning,
while the band keeps playing
we'll watch our troubles blaze away.
