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When it comes to health information, who should you trust? 4 ways to spot a dodgy ‘expert’

When it comes to our health, we’re constantly being warned about being taken in by misinformation. Yet for most of us what we believe ultimately comes down to who we trust, including which “experts” we trust.

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Martin Skirrow obituary

Microbiologist whose discoveries transformed the treatment of infectious diarrhoea and stomach ulcers

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Life on Mars? It probably looks like something you'd find in your stomach

Organisms known as extremophiles have been found inhabiting a range of extreme conditions on Earth, including inside our bodies. Could they be on Mars, too?

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Life on Mars? It probably looks like something you’d find in your stomach

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours is the only planet capable of supporting life, and it seems to have arisen in the form of something like today’s single-celled prokaryotic organisms.

The Conversation

Is it ever OK for scientists to experiment on themselves?

A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines after publishing a report of successfully treating her own breast cancer by self-administering an experimental treatment.

The Conversation

The Most Controversial Form Of Scientific Discovery May Also Be The Most Effective

In addition to discovering many conditions, self-experimentation has led to the development of many essential treatments.

Inverse

From urine tasting to self-infecting with stomach bugs – a brief guide to the most daring medical self-experiments

Science presenter and journalist Dr Michael Mosley was well known not only for his expertise, energy and passion as a broadcaster but also for trialling experiments on himself. From swallowing tapeworm eggs to having areas of his brain switched off, Mosley joined other medical pioneers who weren’t afraid to make…

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Science should be a profession, not a priesthood.

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