Truth & Trust

Israel’s well-funded archaeological programme expands in lock-step with the growth of her illegal settlements, providing subtextual legitimacy for the Likud party’s aim of restoring her biblical borders. Take a closer look behind the confident archaeological headlines, however, and you often find evidence ranging from the tenuous to the spurious.

Every five years a citizen had to register himself there. He also had to declare the name of his wife, the number of his children, his property and his possessions, from his slaves and ready cash to his wife’s jewels and clothes. The state had the right to know everything, for the Romans believed that even ‘personal tastes and appetites should be

After more than two decades helming the august New England Journal of Medicine, outgoing editor-in-chief, Dr Marcia Angell, said in the January 2009 New York Review of Books that ‘it is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published.’ Science is now so riddled with corporate self-interest and falsified