Controversies in science

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  Are online aliases ever justified in academic debate?

  Guardian Professional, 7 Jun 2012:

  Sock puppets - online commenters that create a false identity - are disrupting academic freedom and scholarly debate, says Simon Tanner

• 'Three-parent babies' cure for illness raises ethical fear

  5 Jun 2012:

  Mitochondrial disease, passed from mother to child, is incurable. Scientists see a way to eliminate it using donor DNA but this has set off a debate about 'three-parent babies'

• Anti-GM activists urged not to trash wheat field

  1 May 2012:

  Rothamsted biologists try to prevent raid on genetically altered plants with a video plea to enviromental protesters

• Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices

  24 Apr 2012:

  University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls

• Open access will be crucial to maintain public confidence in science

  20 Apr 2012:

  Peter Coles: Making research papers freely available is about much more than breaking the monopoly of rich academic publishers

• Doctor who admitted research fraud in the US deserves our sympathy

  19 Apr 2012:

  Brian Deer: Peter Francis was a victim of a funding system that demands the answer before it will pay you to ask the question

• A (free) roundup of content on the Academic Spring

  Guardian Professional, 12 Apr 2012:

  Got wind of the Academic Spring but not sure what it's all about? We round up the news and views on what might prove to be the biggest revolution in academic publishing

• Academic journals: an open and shut case

  11 Apr 2012:

  Editorial: The Wellcome Trust's intiative to establish an open-access journal should put an end to a silly system

• Government backs calls for research data to be made freely available

  10 Apr 2012:

  Wellcome Trust's proposal that results of public- and charity-funding research be made public receives ministerial backing

• Science must be liberated from the paywalls of publishers

  10 Apr 2012:

  Stephen Curry: Research that is funded by the public should be freely available to all – a move to open access modes of publication is overdue

• Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution

  9 Apr 2012:

  Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge

• Wellcome Trust joins 'academic spring' to open up science

  9 Apr 2012:

  Wellcome backs campaign to break stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared free online

• Scientist reveals how he made bird flu that could spread between people

  3 Apr 2012: Researcher created a hybrid of H5N1 bird flu and swine flu viruses then isolated a strain that can infect cells in the throat

• Why all our bird flu research should be published

  28 Mar 2012: Ab Osterhaus: Our experiments have sparked concerns about bio-terrorism. But fear must never stop research

• Bird flu: how two mutant strains led to an international controversy

  28 Mar 2012:

  The row over whether scientific journals can publish details of mutant strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus that can spread to other animals is about to come to a head in Washington

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