2002
Is Western Medicine More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons?
Mar 12th
Dr Richard Nicholson (Bulletin of Medical Ethics)
The West spends too much on the wrong type of medicine and this is threatening to disadvantage the economics of healthcare provision in the Third World.
Right Hand, Left Hand
Apr 29th
Chris McManus (UCL)
Starting with the deceptively simple question 'why are most people right-handed?', he explores asymmetry in cultures, molecules, brains and atoms.
Fun and Games: The Booth of Truth and Democs Card Game
May 13th
An experimental evening of trying to inform the public via card games and end-of-the-pier amusements.
Fabulous Science
Sep 23rd
John Waller
Are famous scientists famed for their creativity and intelligence, or their self-publicity and ambition? A bit of both, it seems.
Science, Business and Society
How Big Pharma Shapes You and the Government
Nov 18th
David Healy
David Healy accuses the major pharmaceutical companies of hijacking the psychiatric agenda, suppressing unwanted research results, tailoring clinical trials and marketing drugs as if they were jeans.
Are Universities Just Dumb Organisations?
Nov 19th
Professor Steve Fuller
Universities are encouraged more and more to behave like businesses, by doing contract research for industry, starting their own spin-offs and having to find collateral funding for government grants. What is happening to their role as knowledge generators for the public good?
The Science Business (with Royal Society)
Nov 19th
Panel discussion about entrepreneurship.
Patents in Genetics and the Biosciences
Nov 20th
Andrew Sheard
Recently the human genome results only became public after a lot of arm twisting by governments on both sides of the Atlantic. What is the future for open access to genetic data?
Squaring The Circle
Nov 21st
Dr. Peter Cotgreave
Fundamental research needs almost equal funding from governments and industry.
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