Just before Christmas a blog titled ‘The Greatest Gift’ was posted on two UK websites. It stated that some religions shun present giving at Christmas time, citing Christian Science as an example of this and claiming that this was Mary Baker Eddy’s position, making her un-Christian. Read our response here.

Varsity has the honour of being the oldest student-run newspaper at Cambridge. Its article by the newspaper's science editor, entitled ‘The death of Cambridge’s anti-medicine cult’. The piece described the Christian Science church in Cambridge and elsewhere, but was incorrect in many of its assertions and assumptions.