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Heart-tugging tales of crowdfunded cancer 'cures' fuel quack medicine

14 September 2018

Media stories about people with cancer seeking controversial cures are unwittingly bolstering unscientific and potentially harmful treatments, says Michael Marshall
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits a school in Istanbul

It's an outrage that Turkey is ditching Darwin from science textbooks

12 September 2018

Evolution is being dropped from school biology texts in Turkey. In Hungary, academic freedoms are increasingly threatened. Time to worry, says Rachael Jolley

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