Researchers find no risk of thimerosal in vaccines causing brain problems.… Read the rest

Ben Goldacre takes a closer look, finds the usual confusions; academics are sadly unblameless.… Read the rest

‘The cost of taking care of multiples is huge. It’s not going to finish when the babies go home.’… Read the rest

The bonuses for 2008 were the sixth-largest on record and paid for by taxpayers. What’s the thinking here?… Read the rest

Say they work hard, ‘earn’ their bonuses; call disagreement ‘socialism.’… Read the rest

So she needed fertility treatments because…… Read the rest

‘He was the most philosophical-minded of the American historians,’ said the political historian Paul Berman.… Read the rest

Rewarding themselves for trashing the economy and causing mass impoverishment not okay.… Read the rest

Signers affirm that women and men were designed to reflect God in ‘complementary and distinct ways.’… Read the rest

By preaching against homosexuality and allying with anti-gay politicians, he caused real damage – and trapped himself.… Read the rest

If a husband rapes a wife, she might call the cops, or ‘accept it with laughter and embarrassment.’… Read the rest

Muna, 15, dreads being married off to cousin who hits his mother with an iron bar.… Read the rest

A Danish woman has been convicted of having two of her daughters genitally mutilated.… Read the rest

Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look for truth.… Read the rest

In secular Denmark and Sweden rates of violent crime are among the lowest on earth.… Read the rest

New 33-page report details the government’s responsibility for Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis. … Read the rest

Novels, poetry, landscapes, music, all repay being revisited again, and again, and again.… Read the rest

Almost every historic battle for free expression has begun as a struggle over what is and is not ‘blasphemy.’… Read the rest