Category: science

Channel 4’s Problem with Science

It doesn’t give a damn about whether the facts stack up – as long as it creates a controversy.

The tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.

Darwin tells us that we are no more than assemblages of complex molecules. We should celebrate this.

Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus

The biotech companies want us to consider everything except their motives.

The conflicts of interest revealed by the MMR story are everywhere.

How a cruel and bizarre cult colonised the interface between science and the media.

Nothing damages science more than forcing researchers to develop GM

We Need a Revolution in our Universities

Early specialisation prevents scientists from understanding the consequences of their work

Some of Britain’s most eminent scientists are engaged in an economic war against the poor

Scientists are being forced to work for corporations, and against the rest of us

The extraordinary work of the neurobiologist Antonio Damasio shows that wisdom is inextricable from emotion

Genetic engineering will transfer power from the poor to the rich

Reductionism is making science ever less relevant to our lives.