鈥淲hatever a woman鈥檚 sexual arousal pattern, it has little to do with her sexual orientation. In men, arousal is orientation, it鈥檚 as simple as that. That鈥檚 how gay men learn they are gay.鈥�
Psychologist Michael Bailey on studies examining how gay and straight people become aroused (The Guardian, London, 29 August)
鈥淚t has been established beyond doubt that the placebo-controlled, randomised controlled trial is not a fitting research tool with which to test homeopathy.鈥�
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A spokeswoman for The Society of Homeopaths on a study in The Lancet that showed homeopathic medicine works no better than placebos (BBC news online, 29 August)
鈥淛ust touching a seed makes your fingers feel hot.鈥�
Takayuki Ikegami, head of research at Sakata Seed in Japan, describing a fiery new jalapeno pepper the company has created (The Nikkei Weekly, Tokyo, 29 August)
鈥淚f you mixed, say, two or three-day-old rotting flesh with manure you would get pretty close.鈥�
Jeremy Prentice, curator of Melbourne鈥檚 Royal Botanical Gardens, describing the smell of the flowering orchid, Bulbophyllum fletcherianum (ABC News, 26 August)
鈥淚 use conventional medicine. There is no hypocrisy because there is no choice as all medicines are tested on animals.鈥�
Animal rights activist Kathy Archibald explains how she feels about benefiting from animal testing (The Guardian, London, 27 August)