Just to mark the passing of the latest milestone - five million page views for this blog mostly from the past nine years of daily blogging (after I was sacked from editing Medical Hypotheses). Last month was c. 79,000 views; which is on an upward trajectory.
But I'm very dubious whether these numbers reflect readers, since some of the traffic sources make no sense - 158 views in the past week from a high-school 'science field trip' page! - presumably these are 'bots' of some kind.
The main thing is that I am getting plenty of stimulating comments these days, which is very encouraging - so thanks!
