1. Leading vaccine scaremonger debunked
(Medicine/General)

...website, and making myriad TV appearances to offer his sage advice. But Dr. Bob is best known for his best-selling The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for your Child. This book, or at least no...

2. Child sacrifice and ritual murders rise in Uganda as famine looms
(Religion/General)

... making it to the courts. There were also several high-profile arrests of parents and relatives accused of selling children for human sacrifice. In January this year the Ugandan government appointed ...

3. Who Started the War on Christmas?
(Religion/Atheism)

...ed back on the bandwagon, beginning with editor Kathryn Jean Lopez’s promotion of Gibson’s bestselling 2005 polemic, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian ...

4. Quackery quashed, but Rath’s legacy lives
(Medicine/General)

...untry,” he said. Judge Zondi’s judgment, the TAC suggested, should serve as a warning to those selling untested and unregistered medicines, especially those selling so-called cures for HIV...

5. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

...nvolved, they usually don't join an organization—they start their own." The quartet of best-selling authors who have emerged to write the gospel of New Atheism—Sam Harris, Daniel ...

6. Psychic crackdown on the cards
(Paranormal/General)

...fair sales practice outright, including bogus closing-down sales, prize-draw scams and aggressive doorstep selling, and will for the first time establish a catch-all duty not to trade unfairly, closin...

7. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

...n still shriek like a starstruck fanboy. "Richard Dawkins!" The evolutionary biologist and best-selling author of The God Delusion will appear as a guest star in the new series of Doctor Wh...

8. They prayed to cast Satan from my body
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...re of Bible studies students, most of them under 30 and some with psychological problems of their own. Counselling consisted of prayer readings, treatment entailed exorcisms and speaking in tongues, a...

9. New Atheists Are Not Great
(Religion/General)

... and secularism is losing. … God is the future and atheism is on its way out." Atheists may be selling books, but they're not making converts. Christianity is, especially in places and...

10. 'Jesus' cosmetic row in Singapore
(Religion/General)

...fend its customers, and withdrew the products last month. It was not clear whether other shops were still selling the range, which is produced by the US-based company, Blue Q ...

11. Down’s syndrome bombers kill 91
(Religion/General)

...essantly amid the shoes, prayer beads, identity cards and other debris. Sunni fundamentalists consider the selling of pets to be haram — forbidden on religious grounds. The woman’s head wa...

12. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?
(Religion/Atheism)

A lot has been written about a group of recent best-selling authors that, back in November 2006, Wired Magazine dubbed "the new atheists". Principally, they are the evolutionary biologist Ri

13. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...isery.(2) Experts package inanities as secrets that they're generously willing to divulge. In the best-selling Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know, Beverly DeAngelis clears up such mysteries...

14. Clinical trials and playing by the rules
(Medicine/General)

...k in December and perhaps was just too geeky. Luckily, you share my taste for details. Ezetimibe is a best-selling cholesterol drug with sales of more than £2bn last year. It can modify choleste...

15. Designer microbes to save us all
(Good news/All)

...ed start to decode the human genome, after the board decided to concentrate on drug development instead of selling genetic data. Later that year, Venter revealed on CBS's 60 Minutes II that his ow...