And public confidence in the medical profession's ability to tackle cancer is at its lowest point in this century. Toronto journalist Marjorie Nichol looks at where the war on cancer has gone wrong, and examines some new ideas about what to do now. This series examines historical and scientific evidence. The Reverend H. David Sox, Secretary of the British Society for the Turin Shroud. The question that has long fueled science fiction now drives the study of history.
Historians discuss the magic of freeing the past from the chains of reality.
They were said to have ichor, not blood, in their veins - yet they mated with mortals and had mortal children. They travelled by chariot through the air - and lived in houses, feasted by day and slept by night, and quarrelled among themselves. Edward Furlong assembles the evidence. From the time we first domesticated plants and animals, human beings have tried to improve on nature. With material gathered at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this series presents some of the latest thinking about the benefits and risks of our newfound powers.