The media storm over the hacked CRU e-mails shows that staying above the mud fight is a forlorn hope
The great advances of modern medicine came out of a much lighter and less bureaucratic regulatory system for clinical trials. The current system, however well-intentioned, is causing deaths
It is day six of the 'scandal' over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in
Simon Zadek argued that failure at Copenhagen means we must seek unilateral national deals. chinadialogue.net, the environment site that spun out of openDemocracy in 2007, asked its authors Martin Bunzl, Malini Mehra, Wang Tao and Gao Feng to respond
The latest climate-modelling projections underline the potentially catastrophic impact of global warming. The implications for civic and political action are profound.
The IAEA has asked Iran to explain evidence that it has tested a sophisticated design for a nuclear warhead. Saudi Arabia continues its assaults on Yemeni militants. The agreement that ended the Honduras political crisis has collapsed. All this and much more in today’s update.
Copenhagen will not deliver the right global deal. It is time for nations to save us from climate catastrophe.
How can we grow intelligent government, allowing the open input of unelected specialists, and what wuld an effective drugs policy be?
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