spiked-science


	Tuesday 23 May 2006, London
	Save the planet, don't see the world?
	Tourism versus the environment

Article

16 May 2006

Animal research: extremists are not the problem
Tony Blair has signed up against anti-vivisection agitators - but that is not the same thing as signing up for vivisection.

by James Panton

Article

4 May 2006

In defence of individual ecofreedom
Government campaigns against running domestic electrical gadgets on standby are unnecessary, and will likely prove unpopular.

by James Woudhuysen

	2 March 2006 Child obesity Should we worry if our children are overweight?

Other articles

Article

2 May 2006

Stand up for animal research
The online People�s Petition supporting vivisection is a bold and positive initiative. If only it didn�t offer supporters the option to remain anonymous.

by James Panton

Article

20 April 2006

Climate change: a model cock-up
A climate model program downloaded by thousands of PC users had an internal error that meant it overstated how hot the world might get. Oops.

by Rob Lyons

Article

20 April 2006

So, can a fetus feel pain?
A new study showing that premature babies launch a �brain response� following a heel lance is cited as evidence that fetuses feel pain. One expert begs to differ.

Article

4 April 2006

We need more drugs testing - on animals and humans
We mustn't let the disastrous trials at Northwick Park hospital blind us to the need for further medical innovation.


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Article

30 March 2006

Kyoto and a climate of moralism
The debate about global warming has become a moral crusade against our allegedly 'excessive' lifestyles.

by Rob Lyons

Article

23 March 2006

Peer review and 'media science'
How do we tell good science from bad? By looking at how it is published.

by Ellen Raphael

Article

10 March 2006

Let war commence over nuclear power
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

by Mick Hume

Article

2 March 2006

Animal research protests: what next?
The demo to defend the half-built Oxford lab was a very good start, but there are bigger beasts to slay than a handful of animal rights cranks.

by Brendan O'Neill

Article

2 March 2006

The hard arguments about vivisection
Some scientists advocate experiments on animals while simultaneously apologising for them. Bad move.

Article

24 February 2006

Animal testing: Qui vive?
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

by Mick Hume

Article

23 February 2006

Pro-Test: supporting animal testing
A new campaign by Oxford students makes the case for scientific progress and medical research.

by Kristina Cook

Article

9 February 2006

Can technology make us more or less human?
A new publication explores the hopes and fears for smart pills, life extension and cosmetic surgery.

by Josie Appleton

Article

9 February 2006

Chimps and humans: what's in a name?
Whether we classify chimpanzees as pan or homo is a matter for evolutionary biology - not morality.

by Chris Pile

Article

31 January 2006

Guilt by emission
A new UK government book about climate change only sees humans as the problem, never the solution.

by Rob Lyons

Article

30 January 2006

Chemical stories can make you blind
A new report washes away some of the myths about �potentially deadly� chemicals.

Article

16 January 2006

'This is like a badly written Greek tragedy'
Stephen Minger of King's Stem Cell Biology Laboratory on the fall from grace of South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang.

Article

7 December 2005

Homeopathy: diluting the evidence
The bold claims of a new study don't hold water.

by Timandra Harkness

Article

28 November 2005

Bush isn't the only one who's anti-science
The Republican War on Science is on the money about the Bush administration. But it neglects to mention the sins of Democrats and even scientists themselves.

Article

24 November 2005

What happened to the positive case for nuclear power?
The UK government is trying to promote nuclear by stoking up fears about the future. Bad move.

by Joe Kaplinsky

Article

3 November 2005

Man is more than a beast
The primatologist Frans de Waal says we should get in touch with 'our inner ape'. Speak for yourself.

Column

Jennie Bristow

20 October 2005

Stem cells: don't dodge the debate
Even if scientists didn't have to destroy embryos, that wouldn't end the ethics war.

Columns

Article

30 September 2005

Anti-science lessons
UK schools� new dumbed-down, issues-led science curriculum will inculcate students with suspicion about scientific endeavour.

by Sandy Starr

by Simon Singh, Colin Berry, Philip Ball and Tracey Brown

Article

31 May 2005

What is science for?
Four experts offer their thoughts, as part of spiked's Einstein survey.

Article

9 May 2005

How can we halt the 'march of unreason'?
Dick Taverne on why we need to defend the Enlightenment against dodgy science and 'dogmatic environmentalists'.