Red faces, white coats, blue funk
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Tim Lang describes how it feels to be an adviser to government. Last month's extraordinary...
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Tim Lang describes how it feels to be an adviser to government. Last month's extraordinary...
The lead "scare" began in 1974 when Michael Moore, a doctor based at the University of Glasgow, found widespread poisoning of Scottish families from lead plumbing. Children in Glasgow were twice as...
The BSE saga has provided the unseemly picture of a government hiding behind the white coats of science. Scientists critical of the Government have been enjoying a field day over the latest BSE...
Governments cannot avoid having an energy policy. But British governments have consistently formed policies by their inability to find or take good advice. An example is energy pricing. Rising prices...
The Research Defence Society said this week that there has been uncritical acceptance of "antivivisectionist dogma". It has launched a campaign to show the role of animal research in medical advances.
The Conscious Mind
Towards a Science of Consciousness
Theories of Theories of Mind - The Postmodern Brain
Diana Donald on Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia . I cannot remember what made me opt to study the 18th century as my "special period" of art history at the Courtauld...
This week's Final Word comes from a novel banned by the Nazis and made into a film: "He had sunk forwards and was lying on the ground as if asleep. When they turned him over, you could see that he...
Daniel Dennett's stimulating Consciousness Explained failed to live up to its title. Now another philosopher, David Chalmers, offers a new theory. Roger Penrose assesses it scientifically David...
Questioning Consciousness
Locating Consciousness
Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness
Evolving the Mind