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Irish Green Party politician Eamon Ryan on booming sales of patio heaters, following Ireland鈥檚 ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants (Irish Independent, 1 June)
鈥淵ou wouldn鈥檛 want to let a mouse loose on an aeroplane to go sniffing for anything, but in the right circumstances and with the right controls it could be extremely useful.鈥�
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Len Kaczmarek of Yale School of Medicine. A strain of mice with super-sensitive smell accidentally created in his lab are being trained as 鈥渟niffer mice鈥� (The Observer, London, 30 May)
鈥淎ll trials should be published honestly and transparently, and this study shows neither is happening鈥� This has serious implications for the reliability of the recommendations made.鈥�
Doug Altman of the Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, whose team analysed the results of 100 clinical trials (The Sunday Telegraph, London, 30 May)
鈥淚 always used the internet, cutting and pasting stuff and matching it with my own points. It鈥檚 a technique I鈥檝e used since I started the course. I never dreamed it was a problem鈥hey鈥檝e taken all my money for three years and pulled me up the day before I finished.鈥�
English student Michael Gunn, who is suing the University of Kent because he claims they did not inform him that reusing material from the internet was against the rules (The Times Higher Education Supplement, London, 28 May)