Introduction -- The interviews: Darwinism and genes/ Steve Jones -- Evolutionary psychology and the blank slate / Steven Pinker -- The human brain and consciousness/ Susan Greenfield -- Science and the human animal/ Kenan Malik -- Cybernetics and a post-human future/ Kevin Warwick -- Psychiatry and schizophrenia/ Robin Murray -- Microbiology, viruses and their threats/ Dorothy Crawford -- On cancer research/ Mike Stratton -- Animal experimentation, ethics and medical research/ Colin Blakemore -- Science under threat/ Norman Levitt -- Biodiversity/ Edward O. Wilson -- Science: its dangers and its public/ Martin Rees -- Further reading