Science & Technology

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Neurotrash

From ethics and art history to social policy experts are embracing neuroscience as the answer to understanding human behaviour. Raymond Tallis rallies the neurosceptics

Aids Denialist

How to spot an AIDS denialist

Rogues, pseudoscientists, snake oil peddlers – Seth Kalichman reveals the sinister tactics used by those who deny the link between HIV and AIDS

Darwin

Thinking animal

Darwinism has profound implications for philosophy, but we need to remember the master’s caution, warns Simon Blackburn

Kissing cousins

Kissing cousins

Is marrying close relations harmful? Charles Darwin, anxious about his own family inbreeding, applied his scientific rigour to find out the truth. Adam Kuper reveals all

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