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Lunch with Leo and Sir Francis

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

I was having a chat with renowned Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and brilliant British empiricist and champion of the scientific method, Sir Francis Bacon, the other day during a rare time warp event at my kitchen table (pace Gillian Triggs), laughing about the latest IPCC report that threatens doom to much of our cattle and other farting livestock (having castrated coal).

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