Open obloquy obfuscating ovines...

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Disgracefully misleading the sheeple: almost every single line in the following US Gov COVID jab info is wrong - and demonstrably so. Evil abounds: DEMONStrably...

Source: CDC government website 

"The fact the CDC continues to recommend these modified mRNA injections for infants as young as six months old, pregnant and breastfeeding women, when there is a preponderance of evidence, which shows they are neither safe nor effective, is profoundly troubling. This report discusses the potential reason why this government agency’s position has been so resolute and delves into what the public really needs to know!..." 

Source and hat-tip: Sonia Elijah investigates "The CDC's catastrophic failures: What the public needs to know". Always worth a read and subscribe to the Substack if you wish. 

Overtly odd overreaction overview...

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Three years ago today. Looking back to my first post after having returned from abroad (got back on 1st day of the first lockdown). [LINK now added] 

I had already told colleagues, customers and friends, loudly and repeatedly, that BJ and the UK would never lock down because it was so obviously stupid and would have a terrible effect on everything (economy, health etc). I also said that lockdowns would kill - certainly in less well-off countries - far more than this virus (which we already knew wasn't that deadly, yes, in March 2020 we knew that).

 

Cartoon by JOSH [donate link]

Notice the link and comment at the bottom:

BOOM "Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised Lockdowns"...we sort of suspected the same thing here in the UK. Could almost be Climate Change on steroids!

That was based on this article and interview: "A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data", By John P.A. Ioannidis March 17, 2020. The Diamond Princess told us everything. 

With much more data now we know that in the UK (and NY as a prime example in the USA) the actions taken caused a large percentage of the 'COVID' deaths; the majority of care-home deaths. 

Of course the figures are skewed (and impossible now to ever get a true number). They lied, thousands died.

Omnifarious opportunities or Overlord: OpenAI

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Skynet took just 25 days* to become self-aware...

Who knows. Last week Spartacus had a talk with ChatGPT : We've Come a Long Way [LINK]. This is Open AI's Generative Pretrained Transformer (ChatGTP...you'll have to wait now because it got to over a million users in about a day, with almost zero media coverage!). 

Have a read, the chat is very complicated, we're way beyond Delphi and Sophia. 

Despite the reservations and limitations that Spartacus mentions in the conclusions, it sounds mind-blowingly good. 

"Also, with how fast these deep learning neural networks are improving, and their potential for sudden and hugely disruptive innovation across a wide variety of industries, all I can say is, buckle up. Things are about to get very, very weird." 

More at Epoch Times from Hans Mahncke [LINK] who was 'blown away' by it. 

By the way...Artificial Intelligence in fiction has been around for about 150 years! Funnily enough on the Wiki page (yeah, yeah, I know) on the 'Implausibility'..."Engineers and scientists have taken an interest in the way AI is presented in fiction. In films like the 2014 Ex Machina or 2015 Chappie, a single isolated genius becomes the first to successfully build an artificial general intelligence; scientists in the real world deem this to be unlikely."...erm, Open AI is Elon Musk's baby [late edit: Link added]

[Apologies: sign-up or £$€ may be required for some of the links.]

* Very later edit: this was in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. 

Omnivore order...

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Well what a surprise...not. "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research"...[LINK] both parts of that title deserve looking at, the shoddy research becoming more and more of a problem in every field of science. 

 "KEY TAKEAWAYS" 

• Studies have been linking red meat consumption to health problems like heart disease, stroke, and cancer for years, but these invariably suffer from methodological limitations. 
• In an unprecedented effort, health scientists at the University of Washington scrutinized decades of research on red meat consumption and its links to various health outcomes, introducing a new way to assess health risks in the process. 
• They only found weak evidence that unprocessed red meat consumption is linked to colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, and ischemic heart disease, and no link at all between eating red meat and stroke."

More HERE with both sides of the argument ("Red meat causes heart disease. Except when it doesn’t?" link pre-pandemic) from the same Big Think.

More here, very good 'both-sided' article and comments: No Chris (Carmichael, Founder & Head Coach of CTS) we won't: Will We Ever Stop Arguing About Red Meat? [LINK]

Ows opines: eat what you fucking like, just don't overdo it, and do some exercise (walk). 

Ongoing omnigatherum of our ocracy's obscurantism...

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...from the Naked Emperor's Substack: the "anti-science" 'infinite list'...[LINK] 

"Almost three years ago science entered a new dark age."

Well worth a read; feel free to subscribe, just the 'Today's Must Reads' makes it worth it (varied subjects, not just COVID related).

"Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, seems to agree. He has been compiling a list of the examples of anti-science we have unfortunately become used to." 

Here's the current tail-end of the list:

39. Ignoring immunity after covid recovery is anti-science; 

40. Vaccine mandates have demolished public trust and are anti-science; 

41. Pausing childhood vaccination programs and tuberculosis treatment in poor countries because of fear of covid led to many unnecessary deaths and is anti-science; 

42. Ignoring legitimate vaccine injury is anti-science; 

43. Declaring oneself to be The Science itself is anti-science;

Update 19:19 p.m.: Igor now tells us of more unbelievable anti-science: "If someone asked me three years ago, whether it is possible that the FDA would approve a children’s vaccine with ZERO testing on children, I would of course laugh the question off as ludicrous. Now it is reality. Even worse, schools and camps may start requiring it." [FDA News Release] [Pfizer Press release]. 

As per Igor's Substack, the grand total for adult bivalent booster testing of using 8 (eight) mice wasn't even reached [update update!: "uncomfortably scant data", "critical lack of information", "we {Pfizer} are not going to be transparent to the American public"...just some of the comments from Dr. Paul Offit, one of the not-consulted a voting members of the FDA panel that approves vaccines talking about the new Covid boosters!]

Adults: eight mice, no advisors consulted

Children: no mice, no testing, no advisors consulted...FFS!

Not unbelievable, just plain old sinister and evil. 

'One-off offer' offing offspring...

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After this week's encouraging conservative (almost Conservative!) mini-budget PM Truss continues the good start she has made. Two real issues she needs to sort: the English Channel organised human trafficking and the crazy continuation of vaccinations jabs against SARS CoV 2 to stop COVID.

 

The worrying rise in excess deaths in many age groups and many countries continues; HART wrote to the new British PM. The 'group of highly qualified UK doctors, scientists, economists, psychologists and other academic experts' - amongst others - have oft raised concerns re excess non-covid deaths 'and the need for this to be urgently and thoroughly investigated'. "There is still a total lack of long-term safety data and the worrying rise in excess non-Covid deaths in young males aged 15-19 years has yet to be explained." ...

..."In short, the balance of benefit and risk, used to support the rollout of mRNA vaccines to the elderly and vulnerable in 2021, is totally inappropriate and inapplicable for children in 2022." 

Now, the latest UK Gov data shows a 22% rise in deaths of 5-9 year-olds. Obviously "...major ethical concerns remain" [LINK]

More than one year on, it is of extreme concern that so many warning signals have been blithely ignored.

Last year's minutes of JCVI meetings [PDF]

Obfuscation over origins II...

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Really this blogpost was meant to be the first Obfuscaion over origins not the second (II), it is just that yesterday I began with the blog title but then got side-tracked and ended up not posting on the origins of SARS CoV 2 but on the massive failure of the response to the virus. 

Back to the opaque origins: A couple of days back eugyppius posted "Every day there is more evidence that the SARS-2 outbreak began months before the earliest documented Wuhan infections. Why does nobody care?" 

"But, nobody wants to dig up further evidence on when and where SARS-2 entered humans – perhaps because everybody knows that more chronological clarity would do anything but support the case for natural origins."

eugyppius pointed to a recent Italian study on pre-pandemic SARS-2 infections in Lombardy. Resulting from the retesting of archival samples of suspected measles cases (a similar symptom for coronavirus and measles is skin rashes). Their analyses produced 13 positive cases for SARS-2 RNA; 

 "Eleven of these samples were collected before anybody declared a pandemic. Four of the eleven also had anti-SARS-2 antibodies – including the earliest sample, taken from an eight-month-old infant on 12 September 2019. None of these patients had any relevant travel history." 

In a follow-up post yesterday eugyppius writes that "Since we’re talking about the origins and early history of the SARS-2 outbreak, it’s worth having a look at Jonathan Engler’s intriguing analysis of the all-cause mortality data out of northern Italy in the earliest days of the outbreak." yes it is worth it it and I'd also suggest subscribing to eugyppius's Substack*: a plague chronicle worth following. 

Some snippets from Engler's article below: 

"Both the lack of excess deaths overall and the lack of clusters of excess deaths are in fact totally unexpected in light of the evidence — now supported by papers studying antibodies and PCR testing data AND symptoms — of significant presence of Sars-Cov-2 in February (and earlier, in fact). "

How could an apparently highly contagious and lethal virus have spread throughout the region so much that case growth was apparently actually slowing in most areas by the end of February, without leaving any signal of increased deaths in its wake?

 "On the assumption that healthcare is organised by province, the conclusion can only be that it was the manner in which healthcare was delivered which was relevant to the death rate, not the spread of a virus, which would of course have no respect for provincial boundaries."

The fact that assumptions derived from the data from Lombardy — including estimates of the case and infection fatality rates — formed the basis of policies implemented first in the UK, and thereafter rippling across the world, makes this a question which should be addressed with some urgency. 

This is especially the case since these policies are now being recognised as having caused catastrophic long-lasting harm to much of the world’s population with little or no discernible benefit. 

I'll leave you with eugyppius's eye-opening and worrying conclusion, chiming with what many have thought for the whole COVID era, that political actions led directly to thousands of deaths: 

"Lockdowns were accompanied by a rapid collapse in influenza infections in many countries, followed almost immediately by a rise in SARS-2 mortality. It’s worth asking whether the flu and other common respiratory viruses are actually protective against novel pathogens because of interference effects, and whether our panic measures didn’t, in most cases, simply reduce the competition SARS-2 faced from other viruses. I also cling to my theory that, before Omicron, SARS-2 was an attendant-borne pathogen, which thrived particularly in healthcare environments. Emergency measures, including mass testing, had the effect of hoovering up as many SARS-2 patients as possible and putting them in environments where attendants could mediate transmission – precisely where SARS-2 does most of its killing."

* I subscribe to several allowing access across the platform. 

Obfuscation over origins...

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...of SARS-CoV-2. With credit and hat-tip to The Naked Emperor. The Lancet Commission have released their document "on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic"...ahem, anyone could tell them what not to do, i.e. what all the governments did, against their own decades-old, reliable, well thought-out, considered plans; they decided to panic and spit the dummy...as we all now know, to most people's detriment. 

Anyhooo...back to the Lancet and their "comprehensive investigation, analysis and response to COVID-19". The gist of the Lancet's recommendations I will leave for you to read on the Naked Emperor's Substack or reading the original document at [Lancet Journals website] or download and peruse at your own leisure [PDF]. The Executive Summary is enough...but not for the reasons they hope you'll believe: everyone knows for instance that the numbers of reported deaths and estimated deaths are complete hogwash. HOWEVER, regarding the image below:

The left hand side of the graphic is correct, basically a complete clusterfuck. An intentional complete and utter clusterfuck; a complete 'failure of rationality'. Anyone with even remotely functioning mental faculties now trusts the government less than before; they distrust the "Science" because real science wasn't even considered; an 'expert' (IYI) agenda 'science' was the norm. The only 'solidarity' and 'cooperation' was the patently crazy 'new' science of forget/ignore everything we know and become power-crazed rabid fuckwits whilst scaring the population to become headless chickens. The only internationally recognised health practise/protocol was "stay at home"...literally 'do nothing'. Known effective preventative measures not only ignored but trashed and ridiculed (and patently fraudulent, rushed out fake trials of "science" used to negate decades of success) previously world-leading virologists, epidemiologists, doctors etc., not only silenced but made pariahs...since proven 100% correct...minor rant over

The right-hand side of the graphic...well, there lies the real MASSIVE lie: the excess deaths I have already mentioned. Rubbish stats, a weaponised coronavirus killed a load of old people...harsh, but that is what happened. Most of the deaths could have been prevented if political intervention didn't happen...yes, you read that correctly. I'll go further: can anyone prove the vaccines COVID jabs saved a single life? Anywhere? The numbers coming out now suggest the opposite...yes, you read that correctly too. 

So, "Years of setbacks in the SDG progress"? No. As planned. Dozens of 'Western', 'advanced' countries (read highly COVID vaccinated) countries suffering way over average excess mortality figures (10% higher on average), all age groups except very old (dying anyway or dead from whatever-they-had-before-made-worse-by-the-spike-protein) or the very young (not vaccinated). Compounded by high infertility and massively higher stillbirths/failed pregnancies. Compare those advanced nations to the non-advanced/not so educated/not so vaccinated under-developed nations whose young fighting-fit non-vaccinated males are heading your way...as planned. 

A conspiracy theory too far? I'm winning about 20 nil so far. You see the trafficking across the English Channel - aided and abetted by UK Border Farce (oops), the Royal Navy, UK tax-payer funded private companies, and the [once beloved now lost] charity RNLI - but that's a drop in the ocean. 

Opus on objectivity...

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"Of the impossibility of truth, the limits of knowledge and the end of science in the #corona-crisis."

Marvelloues Twitter thread by Pace (@theotherphilipp). It is 38 Teweets long but a few snippets:

Science does not serve the search for truth, but for knowledge that might approach the truth. Thereby their theses are at least 

- honest, 

- verifiable, 

- and repeatable. 

If only one of these principles is violated, it becomes a valueless end in itself.

Naturally the honesty of the politicians, scientists and media has been shown up starkly over the last 10 months. To be honest we knew before and have known for decades but over the last 5 years in has been more overt, whether it be Brexit, Trump, Climate Change etc., it has become almost the norm to lie to get your way and belittle those that disagree. These days belittling means trying to 'cancel', sinister enough in itself but when coming from on high is really know something soon has to break.

Verifiability 

The claim of a worldwide pandemic should be subject to the strictest possible degree of verifiability. 

All the more so if one considers the inconceivably serious consequences that this will have for the people. 

The opposite, however, has happened. An important indicator of the severity of an epidemic is the lethality of the disease. To assess this, the CFR/IFR is determined. Absolutely essential for this is a clear record of those who have died from a disease. 

If verifiability already fails, repeatability is impossible. How can the CFR/IFR of a cohort be reliably verified in a repetitive manner if its determination is already unclear? 

And how do they test anyway? Unknown. To date, there are no validatable standards for testing laboratories. Do they test for one, two or three loci, which ct-values do apply and for which genes? All more or less unclear. Every laboratory, every country does it differently. 

Remember the centuries-old consensus of scientific work when pathetic journalists, power-hungry politicians and scientists driven by self-interest tell you something about the truth! 

But the death of truthfulness, the fading away of the rational mind at record speed, and the end of scientific credibility, only we ourselves can prevent. By demanding it.

Opus on objectivity...

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"Of the impossibility of truth, the limits of knowledge and the end of science in the #corona-crisis." Marvelloues Twitter thread by Pace (@theotherphilipp). It is 38 Teweets long but a few snippets:

Science does not serve the search for truth, but for knowledge that might approach the truth. Thereby their theses are at least 

- honest, 

- verifiable, 

- and repeatable. 

If only one of these principles is violated, it becomes a valueless end in itself.

Naturally the honesty of the politicians, scientists and media has been shown up starkly over the last 10 months. To be honest we knew before and have known for decades but over the last 5 years in has been more overt, whether it be Brexit, Trump, Climate Change etc., it has become almost the norm to lie to get your way and belittle those that disagree. These days belittling means trying to 'cancel', sinister enough in itself but when coming from on high is really know something soon has to break.

Verifiability 

The claim of a worldwide pandemic should be subject to the strictest possible degree of verifiability. 

All the more so if one considers the inconceivably serious consequences that this will have for the people. 

The opposite, however, has happened. An important indicator of the severity of an epidemic is the lethality of the disease. To assess this, the CFR/IFR is determined. Absolutely essential for this is a clear record of those who have died from a disease. 

If verifiability already fails, repeatability is impossible. How can the CFR/IFR of a cohort be reliably verified in a repetitive manner if its determination is already unclear? 

And how do they test anyway? Unknown. To date, there are no validatable standards for testing laboratories. Do they test for one, two or three loci, which ct-values do apply and for which genes? All more or less unclear. Every laboratory, every country does it differently. 

Remember the centuries-old consensus of scientific work when pathetic journalists, power-hungry politicians and scientists driven by self-interest tell you something about the truth! 

But the death of truthfulness, the fading away of the rational mind at record speed, and the end of scientific credibility, only we ourselves can prevent. By demanding it.

Officially out of oppressive omphalism...

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Good for The Donald! President Trump again keeping promises, again bravely going against the flow and being a responsible leader! Doing what he said he would do [WUWT]. Also giving very good reasons for it. [Speech]. All around the world lefty heads are exploding (bit like the children in the gross propaganda scare tactics) The open-mouthed political elite, lefty luvvies and the usual suspects are in a spittle flecking rage because a large amount of the money they thought was now theirs will be 'ungiven': "President Obama committed $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund – which is about 30 percent of the initial funding – without authorization from Congress". This wealth redistribution scheme would also accomplish almost nothing: "According to researchers at MIT, if all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate [...] estimated to be likely to reduce global temperature rise by less than .2 degrees Celsius in 2100." Remember, the 'omnipotent ocracy', these would-be-Gods (in their own minds) thinking they can change the planet. And, food for thought - 'recalling the oneirataxic omphaloskepsis - to feed the ever growing population we must produce more food; to do so our plant breeding advancements and animal nutrition efficiency will only get us so far: Mother Nature needs help to grow things and to do so she will need more CO2 in the atmosphere than we currently have...oops.'

Officially out of oppressive omphalism...

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Good for The Donald! President Trump again keeping promises, again bravely going against the flow and being a responsible leader! Doing what he said he would do [WUWT]. Also giving very good reasons for it. [Speech]. All around the world lefty heads are exploding (bit like the children in the gross propaganda scare tactics) The open-mouthed political elite, lefty luvvies and the usual suspects are in a spittle flecking rage because a large amount of the money they thought was now theirs will be 'ungiven': "President Obama committed $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund – which is about 30 percent of the initial funding – without authorization from Congress". This wealth redistribution scheme would also accomplish almost nothing: "According to researchers at MIT, if all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate [...] estimated to be likely to reduce global temperature rise by less than .2 degrees Celsius in 2100." Remember, the 'omnipotent ocracy', these would-be-Gods (in their own minds) thinking they can change the planet. And, food for thought - 'recalling the oneirataxic omphaloskepsis - to feed the ever growing population we must produce more food; to do so our plant breeding advancements and animal nutrition efficiency will only get us so far: Mother Nature needs help to grow things and to do so she will need more CO2 in the atmosphere than we currently have...oops.'

Oneirataxic omphaloskepsis...

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Ooh, I do love easy to understand 'science', especially with even easier pictures to look at; 2% of the entire atmosphere are greenhouse gases; 4% of that 2% is CO2 and just 3.4% of that 4% is caused by human activity. Can this be shown in every school to reverse the climate drowning dog exploding child [yes, really!] brainwashing?



Please read yet another excellent WOWT guest post, plus all the comments if you dare; suffice to say that surely by now most sane climate alarmists and consensusites should be at least shuffling their feet and navel gazing.




omphaloskepsis

n. - contemplation of the navel for the purpose of obtaining philosophic calm [LL]

oneirataxia

n. - inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality

Oneirataxic omphaloskepsis...

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Ooh, I do love easy to understand 'science', especially with even easier pictures to look at; 2% of the entire atmosphere are greenhouse gases; 4% of that 2% is CO2 and just 3.4% of that 4% is caused by human activity. Can this be shown in every school to reverse the climate drowning dog exploding child [yes, really!] brainwashing?

Please read yet another excellent WOWT guest post, plus all the comments if you dare; suffice to say that surely by now most sane climate alarmists and consensusites should be at least shuffling their feet and navel gazing.

omphaloskepsis
n. - contemplation of the navel for the purpose of obtaining philosophic calm [LL]
oneirataxia
n. - inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality

Ophic oil...

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First an excerpt from Oslo observations: "Remember the science is settled? Remember there is consensus? Remember drowning pets and exploding children? Remember being told not to eat meat or the Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore's Nobel prize?"



Anyway, I digress, in this pdf are all the numbers in the video (left); the global CAGW snake-oil salesman are getting found out...the 50:1 Project. "What if I could show you that it’s 50 times more expensive to try and STOP climate change than it is to ADAPT to climate change? Well I can, in less than 10 minutes, right here in this video". On that site there are full length interviews with all those who speak in the video.



Worth noting too on What's Up With That? the complete debunking of the 'consensus'.

Ophic oil...

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First an excerpt from Oslo observations: "Remember the science is settled? Remember there is consensus? Remember drowning pets and exploding children? Remember being told not to eat meat or the Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore's Nobel prize?"

Anyway, I digress, in this pdf are all the numbers in the video (left); the global CAGW snake-oil salesman are getting found out...the 50:1 Project. "What if I could show you that it’s 50 times more expensive to try and STOP climate change than it is to ADAPT to climate change? Well I can, in less than 10 minutes, right here in this video". On that site there are full length interviews with all those who speak in the video.

Worth noting too on What's Up With That? the complete debunking of the 'consensus'.

Oslo observations...

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Remember the science is settled? Remember there is consensus? Remember drowning pets and exploding children? Remember being told not to eat meat or the Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore's Nobel prize? Ooops: "“The Earth’s mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity"..."These results are truly sensational. If confirmed by other studies, this could have far-reaching impacts on efforts to achieve the political targets for climate." The new research comes on top of other recent reevaluations. What chance this will put a brake on wind turbine madness and energy bill rises? (Hat-tip the Captain).

Oslo observations...

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Remember the science is settled? Remember there is consensus? Remember drowning pets and exploding children? Remember being told not to eat meat or the Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore's Nobel prize? Ooops: "“The Earth’s mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity"..."These results are truly sensational. If confirmed by other studies, this could have far-reaching impacts on efforts to achieve the political targets for climate." The new research comes on top of other recent reevaluations. What chance this will put a brake on wind turbine madness and energy bill rises? (Hat-tip the Captain).

Outer obit...

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[Edited: 'dead' image/video removed]
Very sorry to read of the death of the 'fearlessly eccentric' Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS [Wiki]. Sir Patrick is amongst the very few 'scientific names' that most people could recognise, highlighting his valuable 'contribution to the popularisation of science over the past fifty years'; he was the presenter of the 'longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history' (24th April 1957 until today, 9th December 2012): The Sky at Night; he "was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
Moore was a former president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA), author of over 70 books on astronomy...". What a shame; question now is - for those of you paying attention - will he become a black dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole?

Outer obit...

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[Edited: 'dead' image/video removed] Very sorry to read of the death of the 'fearlessly eccentric' Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS [Wiki]. Sir Patrick is amongst the very few 'scientific names' that most people could recognise, highlighting his valuable 'contribution to the popularisation of science over the past fifty years'; he was the presenter of the 'longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history' (24th April 1957 until today, 9th December 2012): The Sky at Night; he "was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter. Moore was a former president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA), author of over 70 books on astronomy...". What a shame; question now is - for those of you paying attention - will he become a black dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole?