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| Thursday 6 July 2006 |
Don’t tinker with the libel laws – scrap them
No amount of reform will stop England and Ireland's stringent libel laws from having a chilling effect on free speech.
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| Thursday 22 June 2006 |
Stop weeping over whaling
The attack on Japan for continuing to hunt whales is cultural imperialism dressed up in PC lingo.
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| Friday 2 June 2006 |
‘Animals are less valuable than human beings’
Leading researcher John Martin tells Helene Guldberg why it is morally justifiable to cause heart attacks in rats - and why he isn't scared of animal rights extremists.
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| Friday 26 May 2006 |
Stop celebrating Tourette’s
From TV documentaries to Big Brother, why has a neurological disorder become so fashionably fascinating?
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| Monday 30 January 2006 |
Chemical stories can make you blind
A new report washes away some of the myths about ‘potentially deadly’ chemicals.
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| Monday 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.
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| Thursday 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.
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| Wednesday 21 September 2005 |
Scientific research: the sky’s the limit
The head of the Wellcome Trust has raised a welcome challenge to the UK government's instrumental approach to scientific research.
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| Friday 29 July 2005 |
Singer on ‘speciesism’: a specious argument
In his new book In Defense of Animals, Peter Singer reduces the value of human life to a tick-list of capabilities.
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| Monday 25 July 2005 |
Why Roman picked London for his libel trial
How does a film director based in France who is a fugitive from the USA sue a US publisher and win? By taking his case to 'a town called Sue'.
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| Tuesday 14 June 2005 |
Tagging three-year-olds for life
The UK government thinks it can cut crime in the future by targeting badly behaved toddlers in the present.
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| Wednesday 25 May 2005 |
The ethical case for animal research
A new report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics makes a virtue out of 'muddying the water'.
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| Monday 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'.
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| Friday 8 April 2005 |
All in the hormones?
Vivienne Parry, author of The Truth About Hormones, questions whether chemicals control our destinies.
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| Thursday 17 February 2005 |
Free speech in the dock
A European court has ruled that the McLibel Two should have received legal aid. But English libel law should be scrapped, not tweaked.
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| Monday 14 February 2005 |
Who will stand up for animal experiments?
We need fewer laws against animal rights activists, and more arguments in defence of vivisection.
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| Friday 3 December 2004 |
Galloway 1, free speech 0
Ex-Labour MP George Galloway was defamed, but his victory under English libel law is nothing to celebrate.
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| Friday 26 November 2004 |
Stop apologising for animal experiments
We don't need more laws against animal rights activists, but a more robust defence of animal experimentation.
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| Friday 5 November 2004 |
Boy in a non-plastic bubble?
We can't shut our kids away from environmental chemicals.
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| Tuesday 5 October 2004 |
The myth of ‘infant determinism’
Despite claims, science does not prove that our adult lives are determined by infant experiences.
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