The Voyager Series
The official home of the Voyager Series. Find out what happens when Voyager 1 gets picked up by two itinerant spacecombers from Morys Minor...WUFOOB
woke up, fell out of bed
"I read the news today, oh boy."
A sincere and unequivocal attempt to make nonsense of a range of topical issues of the day...Short Stories
Here is a catalogue of my prose writings, including children's fiction, short stories, non-sequiturs and odd scraps of surrealism with or without a straightforward narrative. Don't believe me? Well, to prove it, here's a picture of a man being fired from a cannon:
Dark Matter
Scientists are racing to find dark matter in the universe. You may find some of it here in the form of conspiracy theories, dark secrets, sinister and bizarre tales...The Moonwalkers
The only people ever to have set foot on an astronomical object other than Earth...Featured Page
Tip Jar
The downloads on this site (e.g. pdf versions of Earthwatch and Shackleton's Shed) are free. If you would like to donate a small sum of money to be invested in the upkeep of the site then please scroll down to the bottom of this page and click on the 'Donate' button. Somebody sometime has got to make money from the internet. Let it be me.Awards
This intergalactically recognised award was presented to The Speed Of Dark Blog by The Speed Of Dark Awards Commission.
I am delighted to have been nominated for the 2012 Tony Blair Ducking Under The Bar Award for boldly raising the bar and diving under it. I knew I had the potential to be a great underachiever. 
I've racked up another prestigious award - the Eric Morecambe 'Mister Preview' Prize. According to the award citation, The Speed Of Dark Blog contains material that ranks with the finest literary works in history. All the right letters are there, but not necessarily in the right order. -
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Tag Archives: HIV
Operation INFEKTION (and the advent of fake news)
Disseminated by social media and platforms such as Google (as well as more traditional media outlets), disinformation (or black propaganda or ‘fake news’) has become a significant feature in the complex landscape of modern international politics in recent years. With … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Mutterings, Opinion, Science
Tagged AIDS, Fake News, HIV, Jakob Segal, KGB, Operation INFEKTION
The dangers of pseudoscience
Matthias Rath created havoc in South Africa during the AIDS crisis by promoting vitamin pills as an alternative to antiretroviral medicine. Read here.
Posted in Dark Mutterings, Science
Tagged AIDS, antiretroviral medicine, HIV, Matthias Rath, pseudoscience
Earthwatch
Neanderthal Cloning Presented by polkingbeal67 & smolin9 Earthwatch presenters – polkingbeal67 & smolin9 “Join us to watch human life unfold on the Pale Blue Dot.” MMBC Earthwatch Highlights, interviews and analysis from Earth’s media (Jan 2013) A genetics professor of … Continue reading
Posted in Earthwatch, Humour, Nonsense, Science
Tagged cancer, car alarms, cell division, cloning, designer genes, DNA, Earthwatch, genetic engineering, Harvard School of Medicine, HIV, Human Genome Project, MMBC, Morys Minor Broadcasting Corporation, Neanderthal, pale blue dot, polkingbeal67, Professor George Church, ringtones, smolin9
