Editorials in 2012

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  • Two strong-minded individuals are the first winners of an award for standing up for science.

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  • Independence of academic institutions is crucial if nations are to rebuild.

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  • Japan’s media have played a large part in exacerbating the effects of a fraud.

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  • Scientific reform promised to give Italy’s scientists the respect and autonomy they deserve, and political posturing must not be allowed to tip the burgeoning system off balance.

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  • In support for science and environmental issues, Barack Obama and the Democrats have a clear advantage over Mitt Romney and the Republican Party.

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  • The Italian system’s contempt for its scientists is made plain by the guilty verdict in L’Aquila.

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  • A Texas cancer-research fund needs big fixes to restore badly eroded trust.

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  • The increasing internationalization of science offers many benefits, but also has limitations.

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  • Restricting access to US death records could have serious consequences for long-term health studies. Government agencies should rethink their decision.

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  • Charges that the UK badger-shooting policy ignores evidence are wide of the mark.

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  • Collaboration between geneticists and economists has the potential to bear fruit.

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  • To make progress in clinical genomics, institutions must work out how to pass on data.

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  • It is time for sociologists and biologists to bury the hatchet and cooperate to study the effects of environmental stress on how people behave.

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  • Survivors of the 2010 University of Alabama shooting chose not to push for the death penalty.

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  • A new uranium enrichment technique approved by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission could have an impact on nuclear proliferation. This should have been taken into account.

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  • China’s slumping renewable-energy industry should be learnt from, not dismissed.

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  • Studies to enhance psychological treatments are scandalously under-supported.

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  • A lack of leadership has hampered progress against global warming. If Barack Obama earns a second term as US president, will he have the energy to tackle climate?

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  • Researchers working on controversial topics must take care how they promote their results.

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