Our thanks to Mike P for this. Extracts:

A genetic breakthrough promises to improve prostate cancer diagnosis.

British scientists have discovered 17 genes that radically increase the chance of carriers developing the disease.

The findings will help create a test to identify those at risk.

Until now academics knew of only six genes linked to prostate cancer, but the research gives a total of 23 that can be assessed in a simple spit or blood test.

The findings by the Institute of Cancer Research in London show men who carry any one of the mutations are on average three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than men who do not…

The researchers found that men with four of the newly discovered genes were on average 11 times more likely to have aggressive tumours than prostate cancer patients without the genes. For one of the genetic mutations the risk of aggressive cancer went up 70-fold, the European Urology journal reported.

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Just published (video, 6:12).

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Our thanks to Guido Fawkes for this.

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Doctor Randomercam has published a pair of videos – responding to George Carlin’s misandric bile about men (17:13) and his misogynistic rubbish about women (21:50).

Excellent videos, likely to leave viewers quite livid.

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A piece by Andrew Tettenborn, a professor of commercial law, on the website of the Rev Jules Gomes, “The Rebel Priest”.

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Just published (video, 37:13). This seems as good a time as any to link to Janet Bloomfield’s important article from 2014, 13 reasons women lie about rape.

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Our thanks to HEqual for this. An extract:

McGarry was one of 56 SNP MPs elected to the Commons in the 2015 general election, but withdrew from the party whip when the allegations were first made against her.

She continued as an independent MP, but did not stand in the general election in 2017.

She embezzled the largest amount from the Women for Independence group in her role as treasurer of the organisation, appropriating £21,000 for her own use.

McGarry transferred money raised through fundraising events into her personal bank accounts and failed to transfer charitable donations to Perth and Kinross food bank and to Positive Prison, Positive Future between 26 April 2013 and 30 November 2015.

She also used cheques drawn on the Women for Independence bank account to deposit money into her own account.

We need more women in politics.

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One of the inevitable and predictable consequences of the feminisation of the NHS over the past 40+ years has been a severe drop in the effectiveness of the organization, as it has pandered to women’s demands for part-time working and flexible working. The obvious solution would be to reverse the feminisation, and recruit far more men than women in future, but that’s never going to happen.

Our thanks to Mike P for this. Matt Hancock believes pandering even more to women is the solution to the woes of the NHS. The start of the piece:

The UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced plans to close the NHS’s gender gap.

Mr Hancock will today say he wants to promote more flexible working options for women and promote them into better-paid jobs in the health service. [J4MB emphasis]

He will call gender equality ‘mission critical’ for the NHS and say it needs to change to accommodate ‘how people expect to work and live now’.

And he will praise the courage of female NHS staff who have faced huge personal difficulty because of the way their jobs are organised.

Mr Hancock, MP for West Suffolk, will make the comments in a speech at the Royal College of Physicians’ annual conference in Manchester this afternoon.

‘We need an NHS working culture that reflects Britain 2019 and accommodates how people expect to work and live now,’ he will say.

‘So it should be deeply troubling to all of us that the NHS gender pay gap is still 23 per cent, that male GPs are, on average, paid a third more than female GPs and that over half of junior doctors are women, but at consultant level it’s only a third.

‘The gender gap is a good barometer of the health of the NHS, [J4MB: What an idiotic assertion] and it’s clear we must do better.

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Our thanks to Ian for this.

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