Why do we trust the wrong people and doubt the right ones? An experiment in lying reveals some uncomfortable truths.
- Assistant Research Professor, Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
How someone speaks should be a lot less important than what is said. But that isn’t always the case.
Why the NHS’s ‘brute force’ approach to cleanliness is wrong.
The use of patient data has been controversial in the past.
Ancient religious customs have accelerated the evolutionary process of humans becoming more cooperative.
Signalling theory tells us lots about the way paid-for verification has disrupted the blue tick system.
Psychopaths have thrived for so long because of their deceptive powers.
The fear that SARS-CoV-2 will evolve in animals and then spread back to us in a more virulent form is unfounded.
Laws and rituals surrounding disease have been part of everyday life for millennia. Here’s why that’s important.
Why it’s important to pay attention to evolutionary theory when considering population health.
People are likely to show compassion to those showing symptoms of illness or injury. Is that how our immune system evolved?
China needs to tell the world what is going on in its detention camps in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
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