Babbage: portrait and partial brain specimen, Science Museum London.
. . . (food) additives aren't just bad in a special, toxicological, narrow sense, but also because they are "facilitators": they allow us to produce rubbish food, preserve it, and make it more attractive, ultimately producing fat people with quintessentially English teeth. In those terms additives were always part of a bigger problem of cruddy lifestyles . . .
- Ben Goldacre, Guardian Bad Science
When I'm taken over to the other side, this is how I jolly well hope it'll look.
