Conspiracy of confusion
Jacky Turner's piece "The Vivisection Void" (THES, April 4) seemed confused. Is she arguing for more public debate about the morality of animal experimentation, or simply for more accurate reporting...
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What about the facts?
A propos of Niall Ferguson's "what ifs?" expanded in Sian Griffiths' article, "The virtual past master" - if Germany wins the second world war, Michael Foot is elected in 1983 etc. "The Communist...
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The joys of research
Yes, it is not necessary to do research to be a fairly good and dedicated teacher (although it is hard to be an excellent teacher without an inside knowledge of research), and assiduous resear-chers...
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Standards relaxed
BERNICE ANDREWS, a member of the British Psychological Society's working party on recovered memories, writes (THES, April 11): "In over 40 per cent of the detailed cases some kind of corroboration...
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Ignorance and distrust
Doubts about whether science is, or even could be, moving towards some kind of synoptic enlightenment are one thing. Actual distrust is another. I am not sure about the reasons given by Mary Midgley...
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Science to the rescue
In his very interesting article "Let there be Darwin" (THES, March 21) Russell Stannard says that the theory of relativity implies that time and space are welded together as a four-dimensional...
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Cod sincerity? You'll fake it at your peril
Groucho Marx once said that the key to success in life is sincerity, and, he added, if you can fake that you have really got it made. Dozens of institutions - and not only political parties - have...
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A kinship that relies on parity
The British Empire came to Natal last week, or at least that is what it may have seemed like to observers. The "last outpost", as Natal was once known, was host to vice chancellors on the Council of...
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Labour in search of brain gain
LABOUR has promised to reverse the brain drain, but without putting a price on the programme it says will do the job. Gordon Brown, shadow chancellor of the exchequer, told an election press...
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Dolce vita swells the student body
Rome. It was probably the first time in history that lectures at Rome's La Sapienza University have been described in lurid prose day after day in most of Italy's newspapers. The two-day seminar on...
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Up to 100 jobs may go in astronomy shake-up
PROPOSED restructuring of Britain's Royal Observatories will cost Pounds 7.5 million over the next four years, according to the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council's latest business plan...
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Proposal to close the Royal Observatory's Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope
A proposal to close the Royal Observatory's Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope in the Canary Islands would save little money but would have a substantial scientific impact, warns Steve Unger, director of the...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: * 54.4 per cent of first degree qualifiers who gained a first class honours degree were men. * 64.3 per cent of first degree...
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Sci-fi and history
From Edward James THE CASUAL reader of "The Virtual Past Master" (THES, April 4), about Niall Ferguson and his counterfactual history, might be forgiven for believing that the reporter thought he had...
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Astronomers spot galaxy
A NEW galaxy close to our own has been spotted by astronomers hunting through photographs of the night sky. The Antlia Galaxy appears so dim relative to the night sky that until now astromoners...