Editorials in 2009

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  • The Obama administration should ensure that science informs the US strategy on nuclear waste.

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  • When it comes to health care, the balance between cost and effectiveness is a difficult one to strike. The injection of $1.1 billion into the US system therefore needs to produce sustainable results.

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  • More researchers should engage with the blogosphere, including authors of papers in press.

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  • A political impasse over transgenic crops has left the European Commission with no good options.

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  • The fourth International Polar Year is coming to an end. But the Arctic and Antarctic must remain top scientific priorities.

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  • It is time for all involved to tackle the chronic scandal of cell-line contamination. Funders first.

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  • The US authorities need to strengthen their position on the use of animals in experiments.

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  • Nicolas Sarkozy must engage with French researchers if his much-needed science reforms are to succeed.

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  • With a surfeit of graduates for the available funds, the US scientific endeavour is increasingly losing its lustre as a career choice. The country needs to take stock and plan more carefully for the future.

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    • Henry Gee
    • Rory Howlett
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  • The economic downturn might be the best time to include ecosystem services in the real economy.

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  • Charles Darwin's thinking about the natural world was profoundly influenced by his revulsion for slavery.

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  • Obama's pledge to set US science in its rightful place requires a dose of reality from researchers.

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  • The conviction of two Iranian AIDS physicians violates international norms of justice and threatens to undermine collaborations between Iranian scientists and their colleagues elsewhere.

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  • Europe's Joint Research Centre should be empowered to stimulate other EU institutions.

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  • The nation can lead the world in wind energy — but its policies need to be more coherent.

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  • Titan is a slightly more appealing lunar target than Europa for the next outer-planets mission.

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