Conspiracy theorists like to posit that the idea of government was invented to extract their wealth and power – history at least partly suggests otherwise.
Sarah Wilson's best-seller 'I Eat The Stars’ posits that societal collapse is inevitable - but her evidence is weak, and her arguments ideological and highly-selective.
In "Communion", JD Vance seeks to explain his shift from atheism to Catholicism, but illustrates only the dangers of putting religion at the heart of politics.
As part of an NHS push for "normal" births - without medical intervention - midwives around the country have been treating labour complications with aromatherapy.
History is replete with scientists whose brilliance won them a Nobel Prize – only to go on to tarnish their legacy by promoting quackery and pseudoscience.
