
Countering the drug industry's marketing machine
25 April 2012
Campaigning psychiatrist David Healy says patients, not drug companies, should give feedback on medicines for a true picture of their effectiveness
25 April 2012
Campaigning psychiatrist David Healy says patients, not drug companies, should give feedback on medicines for a true picture of their effectiveness
24 November 2010
Fakery is sometimes inevitable, says Chris Palmer, the veteran wildlife film producer who is lifting the lid on his industry
1 July 2009
From saving Baghdad zoo to rescuing rogue elephants, it's no wonder Hollywood is planning a film about maverick conservationist Lawrence Anthony
3 April 2007
Known as the greatest living field biologist, George Schaller has helped establish some of the world's biggest wildlife reserves. He tells ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ of his life in the wild
3 May 2006
Robert Trivers' ideas helped launch behavioural ecology – he tells us about his new book, which tackles "selfish genetic elements"
20 April 2005
Self-taught biologist Elaine Morgan has spent her life battling the scientific establishment. Now, at 84, she has the neoconservatives in her sights
9 June 2000
How do you study sex? Stick electrodes on penises and vulvas? Place hidden cameras in people's bedrooms? Do face-to-face interviews with embarrassed subjects? Shere Hite should know. After all, she showed in her famous Hite reports that the clitoris...
21 April 2000
Tom Willis is one of American creation science's movers and shakers. He heads the Creation Science Association for Mid-America and masterminded the recent school science curriculum controversy in Kansas, where students will no longer be
26 February 2000
He is dangling from a rope down a deep pit of acid, hot water and poison gas, but there's nowhere else caver Michael Ray Taylor would rather be. The samples he grabs contain tiny creatures that thrive in extreme conditions
13 November 1999
If you made it up, nobody would believe you. Years after the Nuremberg trials revealed the horrors of the Nazi experiments on concentration camp prisoners, one of the world's biggest liberal democracies was still carrying out unethical medi