Richard P Grant: The pharmaceutical industry gets a bad press. Some of the criticism is surely deserved, but the widespread notion that academia is morally superior is ridiculous.
For months, universities have been on trial in the court of public opinion. David Willetts’s new book shows them how to respond: with passion and sophistication
Jenny Rohn: Restricting Nobel prizes to three individuals has always been problematic, and increasingly glosses over the contributions of everyday scientists