鈥淭he programme conflates ideas and events in a way that 鈥榠nappropriately indicates Dr Wakefield to be more reasonable and thoughtful than the history would suggest鈥�.鈥�
A letter from an unnamed former colleague of Andrew Wakefield, the doctor whose claims sparked the MMR/autism scare, asking the UK TV channel Five not to broadcast the docudrama it has made (The Guardian, London, 3 December)
鈥淚f I am a scientist working in an NIH lab and I get a lot of money in consulting fees, then I鈥檓 going to want to make sure that the company does very well.鈥�
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Arnold Relman, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, on private consulting by government scientists (The LA Times, 7 December)
鈥淚f each embryo was a person, heaven would be populated mainly by people who have never been born.鈥�
Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford on the fact that most human embryos die very early in development (meeting of the UK Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 8 December)
鈥淭hey are no more than infomercials paid for by drug firms.鈥�
David Healy of the University of Wales, Bangor, on the scientific papers written by ghost writers paid by drug companies (The Observer, London, 7 December)
鈥淭he vast majority of drugs 鈥� more than 90 per cent 鈥� only work in 30 or 50 per cent of people.鈥�
Allen Roses, world vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (The Independent, London, 8 December)