Three hundred years ago, Jonathan Swift wrote about scientists trying to make pillows from marble and food from faeces.  If Swift was able to take scientists with a pinch of sodium chloride, why can’t we?

Throughout most of the 20th century some scientists, including the highly esteemed astronomer, Percival Lowell, were convinced there were canals on Mars.

Seven hundred years ago, Dante Alighieri told us that the deepest level of the Inferno consists not of fire, but ice.

How do scientists manage to average daily variations of tens of degrees and then tell us that the planet has become 0.5 °C hotter in the last one hundred years?

Solicitors and purveyors of insurance love small print, and, when it comes to keeping themselves employed, so do some scientists.

THERE is a fine line between science and religion, and as British scientist Thomas Huxley once said, "Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."

Has the greenhouse effect become a creed?