Bonehill was a fantasist, and on the autistic scale somewhat, but he was dangerous nonetheless. He's now out of prison.
One of his tactics was to create multiple hoax posters and spread on soc med as real. These are three of his works. They were spread by thousands of people, even right wing politicians.
The four most famous (in America) “doctors” who are responsible for pushing Covid AntiVax conspiracy theories:
Dr Shaun Brooks, ‘PhD, Oxford’. His doctorate and PhD are in education, not medicine, and from an online company.
@jdpoc He has never worked in any medical environment. When he says Oxford, he means Oxford, Ohio, not Oxford University.
@jdpoc Dr Paul Kangas. His doctorate is in Natural Health, from a distance learning course company which has since folded for fraud. He has never worked in a medical environment or in research.
10th of February in 2022 sees the 50th anniversary of an icon: the birth of Ziggy Stardust, first live performance of the character by David Bowie in 1972 …
@jdpoc The performance was at the Toby Jub pub, in #Tolworth, just south of #Surbiton, literally about 200 yards away from where I live. The site has recently been bulldozed ready for redevelopment
@jdpoc Local community groups are currently seeking volunteers for a celebratory event to mark the landmark date.
THIS DAY in 1983, the nuclear early-warning radar of the Soviet Union reported the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from USA, with 4 more missiles behind it.
Lt Col Stanislav Petrov, officer in command of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, decided against strict orders to wait for corroborating evidence — of which none arrived — rather than immediately relaying the warning up the chain-of-command as was procedure.
This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack against the United States and its NATO allies, which would likely have resulted in an escalation to a full-scale nuclear war.
But it needs explanation: Corinth is the #Tolworth’s Corinthian Casuals, founded 1939 by merger of the Corinthians (1882) and the Casuals (1883), two of Britain’s oldest football clubs.
In 1962, John Glenn lifted off in Friendship 7 to become the first American to orbit the planet.
Here's a brilliant (and short) true story about something that happened a few days before.
Due to multiple computer problems with the (then) new IBM systems, Glenn demanded all the orbit calculations be recalculated by hand, by one person - a brilliant black female mathemetician called Katherine Johnson.
ONLY if Johnson's manual calculations matched those of the IBM, would Glenn trust the systems.
After a day and half of work, Johnson confirmed that the numbers were right, using a 44 ft wide blackboard and a stepladder.