August 18, 2004

The children's crusade

A year ago, a group of 'researchers' published a paper in the Bulletin of the American Psychological Association that 'reviewed fifty years of literature' to come to the conclusion that political conservatism was a reflection of certain unflattering ...

February 23, 2004

A Stitch in Time

Imagine this scenario: with the best evidence at their disposal, the leaders of the medical community decide that a new strain of flu, which is killing thousands of people in Asia, will almost certainly spread and cause a major worldwide epidemic. No...