Dividing By Zero

Sometimes I feel thankful that I managed to be educated in school without being exposed to either too many crackpot ideas on how children should be educated or too many crackpot ideas, period. It would seem that there’s a rise in the latter in particular (the former will probably always be with us). For example, the attempt, now spreading to the UK, on trying to teach Intelligent Design as though it were a science. But here comes another, a real beauty. I’ll hand you over to Dr. Ben Goldacre to take up the story. I note that Dr. Anderson is from the University of Reading’s Computer Science department. I am now also thankful that I went to the University of Liverpool’s Computer Science department all those years ago…