Editorials in 2011

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  • Evidence should be considered when setting policy, but not to the exclusion of other factors.

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  • Events this month have shown that government stances on academic misbehaviour differ wildly.

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  • US biomedical scientists should support bold plans to transform the process of drug development. Now is not the time for disunity.

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  • Despite many federal initiatives, the number of US scientists from minority groups remains low.

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  • The Large Hadron Collider is stirring up trouble, and that's good news for science.

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  • Birth-cohort studies offer invaluable data on the links between childhood development and later life, but today's efforts could learn something from a pioneering project that turns 65 this week.

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  • A critical report has fuelled arguments about the benefits of energy efficiency.

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  • A Nature survey shows the pernicious impact of activism on biomedical scientists. More institutions must offer researchers the training they need to stand up for their work.

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  • Scientists should push for fair treatment of Turkish academics arrested on little evidence.

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  • In the wake of the revolution, Egypt should embrace a future based on scientific thinking.

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  • As Congress tries to tackle the $1.3-trillion US deficit by cutting the $660-billion discretionary budget, scientists must unite with non-traditional allies to ensure that research doesn't suffer.

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  • To ensure their results are reproducible, analysts should show their workings.

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  • The Hungarian government needs to up its stake in the nation's scientific future.

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  • Ten years after the human genome was sequenced, its promise is still to be fulfilled.

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  • The public should be properly consulted ahead of any release of experimental insects. But what do they need to know, and whose job is it to ensure the message gets across?

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  • The Global Fund should be praised for coming clean about fraud by grant recipients.

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  • Historic scientific collections deserve better than to gather dust.

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  • The hunt is on for a distant planet similar to our own. Astronomers should decide just how similar it needs to be, before the candidates start pouring in.

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  • An attempt to rework US food-safety regulations will fail without sufficient funds.

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  • Solar measurements are better than ever — but that prowess could endanger future efforts.

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