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...
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...
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...
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...
Armed Struggle - Sinn Féin - A Secret History of the IRA
Islands of the Arctic - The Ice
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Mad In America
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...
Fighting for Mental Health
The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia
Armed Struggle - Sinn Féin - A Secret History of the IRA
Islands of the Arctic - The Ice
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Mad In America
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...