By day, Roger Highfield is a mild-mannered science journalist, author and broadcaster. But under that crisp white lab coat beats the heart of his alter ego, Boffin...

Multinationals

Some of them have budgets that exceed those of many countries. They are scary and powerful, given their vast economic influence as well as their extensive financial resources for public relations and political lobbying. But don't forget that there is another lot of scary multinationals out there, those that need to find campaigning issues to generate more subscriptions and more income so they can find new things for us all to worry about. The debates about GM, nanotechnology and other issues often sees a clash of the multinationals, between those who sell hype and those who sell fear.

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Natural

Many critics of the way science is applied moan that it is "unnatural". But what we mean by "natural"? When it comes to our home planet, for example, which vintage of Mother Earth is the most "natural" and thus the one to which should we be faithful? The Earth as it was a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago? Or before bacteria had enriched its atmosphere with oxygen? Or perhaps a very new Earth, one subjected to ...

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Simon Singh
Jad Marrouche
Raj Persaud
David Johnson
Brian Millar