Authors from the influential Cochrane group of medical evidence reviews are once again accusing a leading pharma company of failing to provide vital evidence on the efficacy of flu drugs. Read more.
One hundred academics at the University of Sydney, Australia, have this week been told they will lose their jobs for not publishing frequently enough. The move is part of a wider cost-cutting plans designed to pay for new...
Even in death, the world's most accomplished parrot continues to amaze. The final experiments involving Alex– a grey parrot (Psittacus eithacus) trained to count objects – have just been published. Read more.
However, the narrow environmentalist position underlying these popular works reflects only half of the opposing nurture versusnatureviews which have dominated the scientific literature on expertise development.