It is a truth universally acknowledged - particularly in Oxford - that science and religion are implacable foes. Yet in her new book Bioethics, author and academic Professor Donna Dickenson argues that what really threatens the progress of science is not religion, but rampant commercialisation. It is not Opus Dei that holds patents on human genes: it is private firms, who can use their monopoly to raise prices beyond what the NHS can afford. Donna Dickenson will argue that the ‘war’ between God and biotechnology is a diversion from the real threat: Mammon.