Posts Tagged ‘swine flu’

I dabbled for the first time in Yahoo Answers last week.

The concept, for those who haven’t seen it, is that you ask a question and everyone else has the opportunity to answer it. To help keep things balanced there is also a points system where you earn for answering questions and spend by asking questions.

As such I asked can a tree get swine flu? I got a number of answers and when the time had expired picked the best one, which gave me quite a technical answer to the question (it’s no, for those that are wondering).

Good stuff.

Yesterday saw the July meeting of Skeptics in the Pub with a talk by myself entitled “Swine flu – will anyone survive?”

The basic conclusion of the talk was no, unfortunately not. We are all almost certainly going to die. The good news though is that most of us probably won’t die from swine flu, which is a bit more of a positive outlook.

After a bit of a shakey start were Carpe had forgotten to reserve us the room we got going with quite a few new faces which was good to see.