Bad Faith Awards 2009: Pope Benedict XVI emerges victorious
After a tightly fought campaign, and more than 7,000 votes cast, we announce the winner of our coveted 2009 Bad Faith Award
Science & Technology
Digging for Darwin
In our final tribute to Darwin year, Sally Feldman celebrates the life of Mary Anning, the woman whose work helped to lay the foundations for the theory of evolution
Back from the dead? Facilitated communication and the strange case of Rom Houben
In February the BBC reported that the Belgian man who appeared to be communicating after a 23-year coma wasn't. Sceptic Nicholas Pearson was on it for us back in November
Neuroscience can help tame the elephant
Not all explorations of how the brain influences behaviour are neurotrash. Matt Grist, director of the RSA’s social brain project, responds to Ray Tallis
Seks, sinek ve videokasetleri: Harun Yahya’nın gizli hayatı
İslam dünyasında evrim karşıtlığının lideri, tarikat önderi, Dawkins’in düşmanı, sahte Mesih … Halil Arda Harun Yahya’nın gerçek yüzünü gösteriyor.
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
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
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