Big brains and theory of mind are useful for lying and manipulating.… Read the rest

Machiavellian intelligence, complex social skills, large primate brains go together.… Read the rest

‘If scientific evidence cannot be accepted as good grounds for decision-making, what can?’… Read the rest

Criticism, gangster rap, extreme makeovers – all part of the entertainment industry.… Read the rest

Decline, advance? Better, worse? More insular, more public? Yes. Or no.… Read the rest

Scientists accuse Bush administration of twisting science for its own ideological ends.… Read the rest

Mobiles give delusions of grandeur and a segregating sense of superiority.… Read the rest

Our obsession with keeping safe can expose us to new dangers.… Read the rest

How far off the hook should we let morally obtuse people who are long gone?… Read the rest

Officials announced a 22-country synchronized vaccination campaign for autumn.… Read the rest

Kano state to resume vaccinations after eight month boycott.… Read the rest

Local government stopped giving vaccine last August.… Read the rest

Ken Wiwa on the polio epidemic in Northern Nigeria.… Read the rest

Was pop-fuelled homophobia partly to blame?… Read the rest

Autism Intervention Research Trust says it will fund studies to see which treatments work and which do not.… Read the rest

Somebody shut him up, please.… Read the rest

Daniel Dennett on chmess and the wilting of 995 flowers.… Read the rest

‘Ten or fifteen years from now, appeals to religious Americans will be an accepted part of liberal politics.’… Read the rest

Science is supposed to be an open process, not a government-approved one.… Read the rest

Our Final Century says we are on thin ice.… Read the rest