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About
CRISPIAN
The Skeptic
The Record Collector
The Gardener
The IT Architect
AWARDS
2011 Orwell Prize
2016 Ockham Award
2017 Ockham Award
IT Architect
CURRENT EMPLOYER
Leidos Innovations Ltd.
FREELANCE CLIENTS
University of Oxford
CAP Gemini / HMRC
London Ambulance Service
EDS
PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS
Cerner
Imago
QA
/ Microgen
EDS
ICI
Courtaulds
EDUCATION
Teesside University
New College, Durham
The Reason Stick
Venn Diagrams
The Venn Diagram Of Irrational Nonsense
The Venn Diagram of Christmas Traditions
Flow Charts
The Conspiracy Flow chart THEY don't want you to see
A Handy Alternative Therapy Flow chart
Alternative Medicene
Scientifically Accurate Labelling of Acupuncture Meridians
Karma Kanics
Top Trumps
Skeptic Trumps
Brexit Trumps
Spoof Children's Books
The Twat in the Hat
Rupert and the God Delusion
Mr. Credulous
Little Miss Hallelujah
The Ladybird Book of Chiropractic Treatment and English Libel Law
Videos
If Homeopathy Works ... I'll Drink My Piss
Why Carl Sagan is my Hero
Periodic Tables
Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense
Periodic Table of Urban Biscuit Myths
Periodic Table of Official Pink Floyd Releases
Underground Maps
Modern Science
Doctor Who Tube Map
Religion
Situations Vacant - Pontiff
The Multi-faith Blasphemy Generator
The Church of England Cool Wall
The Turin Bicycle
Cardinal Tucker - Papal Advisor
Incurable Rationalist
Blog (1-20)
Foreword
Chapter 1: Balliol College, Oxford
Chapter 2: John Radcliffe
Chapter 3: Happy Birthday
Chapter 4: How To Point and Laugh at Irrational Nonsense
Chapter 5: Diagnosis
Chapter 6: Alien Abductions and Cystoscopies
Chapter 7: Merry Christmas
Chapter 8: Radical Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
Chapter 9: News Year's Eve Micturitions
Chapter 10: Stanley Kubrick and Dad's Army
Chapter 11: The Vinyl Countdown
Chapter 12: A New Job and a New Hope
Chapter 13: The Wayfarer's Walk with One Kidney - Part 1
Chapter 14: Durham Regatta and the Pros and Cons of Headbanging
Chapter 15: Buggering Arseholes
Chapter 16: Put Your Affairs in Order
Chapter 17: The Ladybird Book of Extremely Tedious Oncological Platitudes
Chapter 18: Clinical Trial
Chapter 19: Chemotherapy - Week 1
Chapter 20: Salisbury General Again
Blog (21-40)
Chapter 21: The S.O.S. Club
Chapter 22: Have You Emptied Your Bowles This Morning, Mr. Jago
Chapter 23: The Visitors
Chapter 24: iPhone 7 Plus 256gb
Chapter 25: The Wayfarer's Walk With One Kidney - Part 2
Chapter 26: Conference Season
Chapter 27: Drumsticks
Chapter 28: The University Grand Tour
Chapter 29: Lung Drain 1
Chapter 30: Some Thoughts on Death
Chapter 31: A Wee Dram On The Beach
Chapter 32: Whitby Wheezing
Chapter 33: Lung Drain 2
Chapter 34: Lindisfarne
Chapter 35: Lung Drain 3 (Pleurodesis)
Chapter 36: Immunotherapy Treatment
Chapter 37: Radiotherapy Treatment
Chapter 38: You Lucky, Lucky Bastard
Chapter 39: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
Chapter 40: Happiness and Concordant Coastlines
Blog (41-52)
Chapter 41: In Which I Rise Up Out of My Wheelchair and Shake Hands With Scrooge McDuck
Chapter 42: Come in Number 51 (Your Time is Up)
Chapter 43: We're Going on a Cancer Hunt
Chapter 44: What Has Cancer Dome For Me?
Chapter 45: Now What?
Chapter 46: Just Say Yes
Chapter 47: Graduation Thread
Chapter 48: The Ten Best Decisions I have Made in my Life
Chapter 49: Celebrity Cancer Deaths
Chapter 50: Sunday Morning in December
Chapter 51: Wilbert, Cara, Jasper and Stanley
Chapter 52: Sorry To Whinge But ...
The Ladybird Book of Tedious Oncological Platitudes
Jun 2016
by
Crispian Jago
Chapter 17
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
- Terry Pratchett
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