Paul G. Ellis

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Does research show o-cymen-5-ol in OTC mouthwashes (conc. unspecified) is as effective, as an anti-microbial, as 0.06% w/v chlorhexidine gluconate?

A commercial brand of mouthwash has changed composition in recent years without changing the brand's product name. The original 0.06% w/v chlorhexidine gluconate has been replaced with an...

15 March 2021 5,705 8 View

Precisely: which food items in your 2001 study were identified as “animal” vs “vegetable” protein?

Dear Professor Sebastian, Having read your Am J Clin Nutr (2001) article, and the follow-up Letter, I would be grateful for further guidance as to which food items in your study were identified as...

11 November 2017 8,288 6 View

Is this a valid, general and useful definition of a spinor?

“A spinor is a unit length element of a division algebra.” Dennis Morris “The Naked Spinor” 2015 (ISBN 978 150781 7995) After running through some history of spinors and Clifford algebras, some...

19 April 2017 8,110 3 View

Why near-50/50 results for recent major elections/referendums?

With the results for a number of major recent referendums and elections being notably close to 50/50: - Brexit (51.9% : 48.1%) - Popular vote in the recent US presidential election 51.1% to 48.9%...

17 April 2017 7,821 2 View

Does “Western” liberal democracy require a hegemonic civilisation to guarantee and maintain its values?

[UPDATED FROM: Is “Western” liberal democracy essentially unique, or have other systems with similar values flourished in other places and times? For example, might some small city-states such as...

13 December 2016 1,909 32 View

Do massless particles have an independent existence?

UPDATED AT CONCLUSION (10 Sept. 2016) While still advocating the view that photons (and light waves) exist only in the maths relating the observable energy changes at emitters and absorbers (as...

11 August 2016 8,826 27 View

Is it possible that any lithoautotrophs evolved from an independent origin of life on Earth?

Ramunas Stepanauskas has recently reported, in Nature publishing group’s ISME Journal, the ancient and remarkably widely distributed “living fossil” lithotroph Desulpforudis audaxviator. A...

01 January 1970 9,288 6 View