When ref fails to blow whistle
Flawed research on the dangers of ecstasy published in Science has led to questions about the quality of peer review, says Anna Fazackerley. Almost a year ago, the US neuroscientist George Ricaurte...
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We don't lack skill -just political will
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
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Bin Laden sure didn't read any beer mats
9/11 was a wake-up call for cultural theorists focused on vampires and discos. It is time to return to big ideas, says Terry Eagleton. My new book, After Theory , provoked one predictable reaction...
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Lethal mix of Armalite and the ballot box
Armed Struggle - Sinn Féin - A Secret History of the IRA
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Chilling forecast for polar worlds
Islands of the Arctic - The Ice
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Articles for novices, an index for experts
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
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News of scandal is a few decades too late
Mad In America
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from some controversial posthumous memoirs: "On Tuesday, January the 24th, 1832, I received tidings that my...
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A war as noble as a battle for one's country
Fighting for Mental Health
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Stalled on the brink of insight
The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia
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Lethal mix of Armalite and the ballot box
Armed Struggle - Sinn Féin - A Secret History of the IRA
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Chilling forecast for polar worlds
Islands of the Arctic - The Ice
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Articles for novices, an index for experts
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
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News of scandal is a few decades too late
Mad In America
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from some controversial posthumous memoirs: "On Tuesday, January the 24th, 1832, I received tidings that my...