Editorial: it just ain’t natural
We shouldn't allow myth and dogma to cloud rational evidence-based argument
Science & Technology
A many splendour’d thing
Moons and Junes, hearts, diamonds and red, red roses – this Valentine's Day, what could be more humanist than passionate romance? But, warns Sally Feldman, it may also be a…
Behind the couch
Was Freud really a rationalist? Lie back and let Alfred Tauber convince you
Book review: The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
Do we have innate religious tendencies? Jake Wallis Simons turns to a new book to find out
Book review: Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio and The Tell-Tale Brain by VS Ramachandran
Can the brain be explained? Louise Foxcroft reads two of the world's leading neuroscientists to find out
Delusions of grandeur
Information systems professor Ian Angell tells Laurie Taylor where science has gone wrong
Playing God
With Danny Boyle's production of Frankenstein due to open at the National Theatre in February, Philip Ball looks at the timeless fascination, and consequences, of the monster myth
Rationalism’s dirty secret
John Appleby unravels the history of humanism’s dalliance with eugenics.
Two-faced Moon
Photographs of Saturn’s third largest moon taken by the Cassini probe reveal an explanation of its mysterious two-toned appearance, says Marcus Chown
Inside the mind of Scientology’s Messiah
Twenty-five years after his death, Michael Bywater revisits the sacred texts of the pulp science writer turned prophet L Ron Hubbard