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  Ashley Yeager on trustworthiness of scientists

  8 August 2019
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  Paul McEuan on the point of writing

  11 June 2019
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  Barbara Kingsolver on Richard Powers

  5 April 2019
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  Natalie Kofler on gene-edited babies

  26 February 2019
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  David Ludwig on the Diet Wars

  15 November 2018
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  Amanda Niehaus on the intersection of fact with fiction

  18 May 2018
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  Piers Bizony on the prophetic nature of 2001

  30 March 2018
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  John Bohannon on unusual public science engagement methods

  1 November 2017
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  Oliver Moody on getting what you pay for

  18 July 2017
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  Philip Pullman on the power of the author

  13 July 2017
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  Peter Higgs on the price of fame

  5 April 2017
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  Nature on Trump and ideology

  4 February 2017
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  Ian Sample on New Year's optimism

  27 December 2016
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  The Guardian on the 'Two Cultures'

  22 November 2016
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  Tom Whipple on the caffeine fix

  15 August 2016
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  Andrew Dai on machine learning

  8 May 2016
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  Tricia Serio on subtle sexism in science

  28 April 2016
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  Philip Ball on the new elements

  17 January 2016
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  Oliver Geden on the integrity of climate scientists

  30 November 2015
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  Guy Poppy on scientific impact

  30 September 2015
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  Crispin Halsall on big distractions

  8 September 2015
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  Peter Medawar on lab lovers

  23 July 2015
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  Alan Stern on the New Horizons flyby of Pluto

  12 July 2015
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  Stephen Hawking on austerity cuts

  31 May 2015
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  Mark Zuckerberg on virtual reality

  22 April 2015
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  Doug Turnbull on the fruits of his labor

  8 February 2015
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  Jim McGovern on Republican science-bashing

  24 November 2014
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  Matt Taylor on the Rosetta mission

  16 November 2014
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  David Harding on the queen of the sciences

  11 September 2014
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  Adam van Arsdale on the Hobbit

  25 August 2014
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  Stephanie Kwolek on breakthroughs

  29 June 2014
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  Yorick Wilks on inflated artificial intelligence claims

  11 June 2014
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  Chris Lintott on the discovery of primordial gravitational waves

  22 March 2014
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  Kevin Spacey on scientists as celebrities

  15 December 2013
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  Mark Lorch on chemophobia

  28 November 2013
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  Meg Urry on the neutering of female scientists

  4 October 2013
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  Alex Day on stereotypes

  5 August 2013
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  Nikki Baughan on female role models in the cinema

  22 July 2013
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  Georgina Rippon on feminism

  10 July 2013
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  Alice Roberts on geeks

  21 May 2013
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  Denis R. Alexander on a strange race

  23 February 2013
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  Nature magazine on Italian research

  4 November 2012
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  Science on women in research careers

  14 October 2012
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  Adam Ruben on scientists

  9 May 2012
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  Nature magazine on dangerous research

  2 May 2012
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  Nature magazine on Britain's neglect of Alan Turing

  22 February 2012
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  Mike Gazzaniga on the scientific process

  22 November 2011
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  Ben Gilliland on the LHC's legacy

  24 October 2011
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  Nature magazine on the lab work ethic

  4 September 2011
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  Ben Goldacre on big science studies

  12 June 2011
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  Steve Silberman on US Republicans

  30 May 2011
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  Stuart Jeffries on Brian Cox

  27 March 2011
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  Nature on the joys of negative data

  7 March 2011
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  Philip Ball on explaining science

  27 February 2011
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  Marc Kirschner on engineers

  13 December 2010
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  Elizabeth Kolbert on US Republicans and climate change

  25 November 2010
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  Ben Goldacre on the Daily Mail

  27 October 2010
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  Richard Ransohoff on scientist/media relations

  6 September 2010
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  James Kakalios on curiosity

  22 July 2010
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  Daniel Sarewitz on modern scientists

  1 July 2010
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  Marc Lipsitch on swine flu precautions

  13 June 2010
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  Martin Rivers on who you should trust

  22 April 2010
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  Ben Goldacre on scientific criticism

  20 April 2010
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  Adam Afriye on the scientific profession

  3 March 2010
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  Stephen Curry and Bill Hanage on how science really works

  13 February 2010
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  Simon Jenkins on scientists

  8 February 2010
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  Steven Chu on scientist work ethics

  30 December 2009
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  Ben Goldacre on climate change denialists

  12 December 2009
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  Gordon Brown on taking scientific advice

  3 November 2009
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  Peter Lawrence on the research funding system

  19 September 2009
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  Diggitt McLaughlin on dying biological arts

  20 August 2009
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  Stephen Wiley on young scientists

  26 July 2009
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  Toby Murcott on scientific narrative

  28 June 2009
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  Stephen Wiley on rogue scientists

  24 May 2009
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  Rufus Wainright on scientists

  19 April 2009
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  Christopher Reddy on science-speak

  22 March 2009
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  Jeffrey Nachmanoff on scientific plots

  1 March 2009
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  Nature on Obama

  1 February 2009
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  Michael Brooks on omniscient scientists

  25 January 2009
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  Ben Goldacre on science in the media

  28 December 2008
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  Jerry Zucker on scientists

  7 December 2008
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  Nature editorial staff on uncommon descent

  Richard P. Grant 23 November 2008
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  Nature editorial staff on financial meltdown

  16 November 2008
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  Richard Gallagher on drone factories

  19 October 2008
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  Denis R. Alexander on Darwin

  5 October 2008
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  Richard Holmes on communication

  28 September 2008
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  Deborah C. Runkle on how animal research ignorance is bliss

  21 September 2008
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  Steven Wiley on Big Biology

  24 August 2008
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  W. Tad Pfeffer on the dangers of dissent

  3 August 2008
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  Steven Wiley on the reductionism of biologists

  13 July 2008
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  Ken Caldeira on scientists in the policy arena

  6 July 2008
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  Nature editorial staff on stigmatizing scientific fraudsters

  22 June 2008
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  Peter A. Lawrence on why older scientists shouldn't be turfed out

  1 June 2008
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  Ben Goldacre on science bloggers vs. science journalists

  26 May 2008
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  Richard Gallagher on Plan B for scientists

  11 May 2008
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  Freya Blekman on informal gender-bias in physics

  27 April 2008
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  Nature editorial on hyped-up science

  6 April 2008
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  Steven Wiley on scientific innovation

  9 March 2008
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  David Goldston on debating science

  10 February 2008
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  Penelope Duerksen-Hughes on women in science

  20 January 2008
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  Elisabeth Pain on lab fraud

  6 January 2008
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  Paul Trotman on science spin

  23 December 2007
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  Felix E. Schweizer on scientific theories

  2 December 2007
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  Ben Goldacre on MRI for market research

  18 November 2007
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  Ruthmarie Hicks on starving scientists

  11 November 2007
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  David Cronenberg on literary freedom

  28 October 2007
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  Pamela Silver on academic biologists

  14 October 2007
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  Ben Goldacre on bogus fish oil trials

  23 September 2007
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  Paul Browne on scientists debating online

  2 September 2007
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  Andrew Rosenberg on scientists as policy facilitators

  26 August 2007
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  Marina Hyde on Stephen Hawking

  11 August 2007
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  Ursula K. Le Guin on genre

  29 July 2007
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  Philip Ball on Hollywood science

  15 July 2007
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  Gaia Vince on science pop songs

  1 July 2007
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  Nature on poor peer-reviewing skills

  17 June 2007
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  Chris Mooney on scientific scepticism

  3 June 2007
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  Michael Davidson on knowing how things work

  13 May 2007
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  Adam Ferguson on PhDs in the real world

  29 April 2007
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  Fabian Asker on literary deconstruction

  15 April 2007
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  Sean Morrison on science publication

  1 April 2007
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  Hugh Cormican on physicists

  11 March 2007
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  Mike Hulme on UK press scaremongering

  25 February 2007
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  Ben Goldacre on science journalists

  11 February 2007
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  Ari Handel on leaving science

  28 January 2007
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  Nate Lo on the art of naming a new bacterium

  7 January 2007
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  An anonymous researcher on animal experimentation

  17 December 2006
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  Ben Goldacre on the Daily Mail

  3 December 2006
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  Patrick Marsh on the origins of life

  19 November 2006
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  Simon Jenkins on Britain's science curriculum

  29 October 2006
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  Richard Gallagher on George Bush

  14 October 2006
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  Harry Kroto on chemistry education

  7 October 2006
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  George Monbiot on climate-change denial

  24 September 2006
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  Elizabeth Spelke on gender differences in science aptitude

  10 September 2006
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  Ben Goldacre on clinical trials

  13 August 2006
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  Jeanette Winterson on Stephen Hawking

  5 August 2006
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  Tom Pringle on faked Brainiac science

  15 July 2006
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  Benjamin Heisenberg on the Zeitgeist

  28 June 2006
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  Faith Wilding on kids in labs

  24 June 2006
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  James Lovelock on nuclear waste

  11 June 2006
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  Ben Goldacre on the placebo effect

  28 May 2006
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  Nick Ross on inspiring science writing

  21 May 2006
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  Tshaka Cunningham on postdoctoral salaries

  8 May 2006
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  Karla Neugebauer on women in science

  1 May 2006
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  The Rev. George V. Coyne on the Universe

  18 April 2006
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  Ian McEwan on science writers

  2 April 2006
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  George Lewith on the BBC's documentary Alternative Medicine

  26 March 2006
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  David Magnus on when human life begins

  19 March 2006
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  Iain Simpson on scientists vs. anti-vivisectionists

  3 March 2006
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  Rush Holt on non-scientists

  18 February 2006
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  Peter Bradshaw on Proof

  13 February 2006
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  The Independent on the death of a planetarium

  5 February 2006
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  Lord Martin Rees on evolution

  30 January 2006
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  Mark MacDiarmid on negative results

  18 January 2006
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  Madeleine Bunting on Richard Dawkins's viewpoint

  10 January 2006
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  Cho Jae-hyon on South Korea's stem cell scandal

  21 December 2005
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  Simon Singh on physicists

  2 December 2005
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  Jim Watson on women scientists

  8 November 2005
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  The FT Magazine on scientists in film

  22 October 2005
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  Alan Sugar on scientists

  25 September 2005
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  Dr. Henry Gee on fantasy and science

  4 September 2005
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  Richard Gallagher on the poor image of scientists

  21 July 2005
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  Professor Sir Antony R. Hoare on selfless scientific strategies

  Jennifer Rohn 5 June 2005
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  Tim Lott on science novelists

  24 April 2005
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  Zlatko Tesanovic on string theory

  31 March 2005
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  Lord May on science TV dramas

  7 March 2005

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