Chimps don't mourn like humans
A handful of chimp mothers carrying around their dead babies is not evidence of ‘human-like’ qualities.
View ArticleCan orang-utans really mime?
Experts should know better than to claim that great apes can communicate in a similar way to human beings.
View ArticleShould apes have rights?
We have built cities, cured diseases and created art, yet some people think humans are worth no more than apes.
View ArticleRestating the case for human uniqueness
The evidence for apes having human-like mental capacities is getting weaker and weaker.
View ArticleExploring the chasm that separates great apes from humans
Humans are not just social, we are 'ultra social.'
View ArticleOnly Humans Have Morality, Not Animals
In his attempt to prove that beasts have morals, Dale Peterson airbrushes away all the things that make humans unique in the animal kingdom.
View ArticleThere Is No Evidence Television Is Bad For Kids
The recent claim that too much television is bad for children is just another policy agenda dressed up as science.
View ArticleDoes Watching TV Give You Cancer? Of Course Not
News reports claiming that TV-addicted kids risk getting cancer confirm that the scaremongers mean business in 2013. It’s time to fight back.
View ArticleBullying: the need to reframe the debate
As adults we should be asking ourselves whether we are helping or hindering children and young people by the way we talk about and deal with bullying. Adults undoubtedly need to find ways of helping...
View ArticleDSM-5: A Disaster for Children
Christopher Lane talks to Helene Guldberg about the newly published fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – ‘a legal document facilitating the medication of millions’.
View ArticleWe Are Not Determined by Early Experiences
Whether based on attachment theory or neurobabble, the claim that human beings are set in stone by the age of three is groundless.
View ArticleLet's Not Obsess About 'Sibling Bullying'
In the vast majority of cases, sibling rivalries do no more harm than irritate the hell out of parents.
View ArticleReview: The Book of Woe
A diagnosis may result in “a kind of reductionism that insults our sense of ourselves as unfathomably complex or even transcendental creatures” Greenberg writes. A doctor who tells a widower that his...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Maketh Not the Man
John Bruer talks to Helene Guldberg about the myth of the first three years being pivotal.
View ArticleReview: Saving Normal
Many human behaviours, quirks, eccentricities and woes which in the past would have been seen as parts of the rich tapestry of life are now branded mental disorders.
View ArticleTommy the Chimp Is an Animal, Not a Prisoner
A human child, even as young as two years of age, is head-and-shoulders above any ape intellectually.
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