鈥淚f you sold strawberry jam that contained not a trace of strawberry you鈥檇 be in trouble.鈥
Pharmacologist David Colquhoun of University College London in the medical journal , slamming the UK authorities over their decision to license homeopathic treatment for bruises
鈥淭he unrest unfolding in Iran is the quintessential 21st-century conflict. On one side are government thugs firing bullets. On the other side are young protesters firing tweets.鈥
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鈥淭he current debate about global warming is clearly harmful. I believe that it is time we demanded that the media stop scaring us and our kids silly. We deserve a more reasoned, more constructive, and less frightening dialogue.鈥
Self-styled 鈥渟ceptical environmentalist鈥 Bj酶rn Lomborg in , London
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The Science Museum The popular London attraction celebrates its on 26 June
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Nuclear fusion (again) ITER, the international project to build a revolutionary energy source, is , pushing the prospect of commercial nuclear fusion even further into the future
In the polls
鈥1 in 3 Proportion of American children aged 6 to 11 who are afraid that the Earth will cease to exist before they grow up because of global warming and other problems鈥