Converging crockery

Lord Monckton, the wacky climate skeptic, demonstrates another common feature of these crackpots: he doesn't just have one domain of supreme quackery, it extends everywhere…and he is now claiming to have a cure for HIV and the common cold. I haven't been able to track down what this panacea is, other than that it is a drug and that he has patented it.

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