Editorial: Inside denial
Is our timidity emboldening the creationists?
Science & Technology
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
God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam
Nina Power on a good Dark Ages argument made for the wrong reasons
Beware the spinal trap
As part of the Keep Libel Laws Out of Science campaign we republish here the article at the centre of the BCA's libel case against Simon Singh. Some practitioners claim…
Editorial: Bogus treatment
By supporting Simon Singh we can help change Britain's chilling libel laws
Bad dream
Contrary to what Angela Saini argues, there are few demonstrable benefits from genetic modification of crops, and huge potential risks, says Emma Hockridge of the Soil Association