鈥淚t鈥檚 more important than ever to educate our contemporaries鈥� consciences so that science does not become the criterion for goodness.鈥�
Pope Benedict XVI warns academics against the 鈥渟eductive鈥� powers of science at a Vatican meeting sponsored by the Paris Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Reuters, 28 January)
鈥淭he law tends to assume that criminal behaviour is a matter of free will. I wonder if that is entirely true.鈥�
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Bernard Gesch of the UK charity Natural Justice, in support of a project led by researchers at the University of Oxford to provide young prison inmates with vitamin supplements in the hope of reducing violent behaviour (The Times, London, 29 January)
鈥淭he height of reckless irresponsibility on the part of ABC and its parent company, The Walt Disney Co.鈥�
Renee Jenkins, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, blasts makers of Eli Stone, a new drama with a storyline in which a flu vaccine causes autism (Associated Press, 28 January)
鈥淭hey are playing the fear card. It鈥檚 time to start managing wolves as any other big game animals.鈥�
Steve Nadeau of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, who thinks environmental groups suing over a rule allowing wolf culls in the northern Rockies are overstating the likely extent of deaths (Associated Press, 28 January)
鈥淭his one would punch right through the atmosphere with no trouble.鈥�
Luckily, the 250-metre asteroid 鈥�2007 TU24鈥� missed us. Donald Yeomans of NASA鈥檚 Near-Earth Object Program and others watched it pass by at only 1.4 times the distance to the moon this week (The Baltimore Sun, Maryland, 29 January)