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| Monday 16 January 2012 |
Ignore these pedlars of panic – the kids are all right
Report after report tells us that children are sad, lost and in need of expert intervention. Real-world evidence suggests otherwise.
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| Thursday 24 November 2011 |
Anti-bullying campaigns: doing more harm than good?
ESSAY: Of course extreme cases of bullying should be tackled, but let’s not pathologise normal childhood relationships.
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| Friday 24 June 2011 |
Animals don’t have morality, people do
In his attempt to prove that beasts have morals, Dale Peterson airbrushes away all the things that make humans unique in the animal kingdom.
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| Friday 17 June 2011 |
Animals don’t have morality, people do
In his attempt to prove that beasts have morals, Dale Peterson airbrushes away all the things that make humans unique in the animal kingdom.
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| Friday 11 February 2011 |
The chasm between great apes and people
For all the claims that apes and humans are genetically ‘98.5 per cent the same’, there is still an unfathomable gap between us.
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| Friday 28 January 2011 |
The chasm that separates great apes from humans
Jon Cohen’s new book reminds us that, for all the claims that apes and human beings are ‘98.5 per cent the same’ in terms of genetics, there is still an unfathomable gap between us.
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| Wednesday 3 November 2010 |
Animals are useless, unless humans make use of them
We have built cities, cured diseases and created art, yet some people think humans are worth no more than apes.
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| Thursday 19 August 2010 |
Orang-utans are not remotely like humans
Experts should know better than to claim that great apes can communicate in a similar way to human beings.
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| Thursday 8 July 2010 |
Set children free — by trusting adults
We can only give kids the independence they need if we have faith in other people to look out for them.
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| Thursday 29 April 2010 |
Monkeys mourning? Don’t make me laugh
A handful of chimp mothers carrying around their dead babies is not evidence of ‘human-like’ qualities.
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| Friday 12 March 2010 |
This isn’t racism. It’s just kids being kids
A new book explodes the myth of racist children and reveals how anti-racist initiatives in British schools have split pupils into ethnic camps.
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| Friday 26 February 2010 |
Racialising the playground
A brave new book challenges the introduction of anti-racist policies in British schools, arguing that they blow everyday spats out of proportion and split kids along ethnic lines.
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| Wednesday 29 July 2009 |
Bullying the public
The latest NSPCC/ChildLine initiative on bullied children presents both adults and kids as toxic beings.
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| Friday 24 July 2009 |
Restating the case for human uniqueness
Despite all the media hype about ‘clever chimps’ using tools and feeling emotions, in truth there is nothing remotely human about primates.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
Restating the case for human uniqueness
A brilliant new book cuts through all the media-oriented research about ‘clever chimps’ using tools, doing maths and feeling emotions, and reminds us that, in truth, there is nothing remotely human about primates.
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| Friday 24 April 2009 |
It’s time to move beyond the nature/nurture divide
In advising parents to ignore hectoring experts, Judith Rich Harris’s book still packs a punch 10 years on. But its use of evolutionary theory and social psychology to explain how people are ‘shaped’ leaves much to be desired.
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| Thursday 19 March 2009 |
Chimps are like humans? Stop monkeying around
This week it was revealed that chimps use sticks to smash open beehives. But there’s nothing remotely ‘human-like’ in such behaviour.
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| Monday 2 February 2009 |
The mother of all interventions
We should roundly reject the new UK report which argues that time-stretched parents are producing damaged children.
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| Friday 23 January 2009 |
‘Autistic children are now seen as a burden’
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick talks about how raising an autistic child is made infinitely harder by the charlatans waging the ‘war on autism’.
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| Monday 29 December 2008 |
‘Autistic children are now seen as a burden’
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, author of Defeating Autism, talks to Helene Guldberg about how raising a child with autism can be made infinitely harder – emotionally, financially and practically – by the charlatanic ‘war on autism’.
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