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
Science & Technology
What’s the Worst that Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate by Greg Craven
Simon Singh on a rational look at climate change
Makers by Cory Doctorow
Bill Thompson enjoys a sci-fi writer growing up
Thinking animal
Darwinism has profound implications for philosophy, but we need to remember the master’s caution, warns Simon Blackburn
Editorial: Inside denial
Is our timidity emboldening the creationists?
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
Bless this tiger
Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference
Sex, flies and videotape: the secret lives of Harun Yahya
Muslim creationist, cult leader, Dawkins' nemesis, messiah. Halil Arda tracks down the real Harun Yahya
Bless this tiger
Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference
The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer
Louise Foxcroft is perplexed by a book that squeezes the life out of the Black Death