Editorials in 2007

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  • The gap between theory and practice remains surprisingly wide in conservation biology.

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  • An Asian Moon race is neither particularly worrying nor especially inspiring.

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  • A government that asks for independent scientific advice had best be ready to take it.

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  • How the responsibilities of co-authors for a scientific paper's integrity could be made more explicit.

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  • The likely derailment of a US–Indian nuclear deal highlights the limitations of bilateral arrangements.

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  • Debate about sensitive scientific issues needs to be forthright but not crass.

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  • Many 'developing' countries are much more developed than some people think. Their rapid progress should inspire scientists and their institutions to do more to confront global poverty.

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  • The politically motivated extension of a US stem-cell registry makes no scientific sense.

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  • The award of a Nobel prize to an advisory body in the science of climate change rightly reflects the organization's many virtues, and should spur it on in its mission to assess and address global warming.

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  • Mentoring and training for ethical behaviour aren't all they're cracked up to be.

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  • Social scientists studying electronic interactions must take the lead on preserving data security.

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  • Biofuels need new technology, new agronomy and new politics if they are not to do more harm than good.

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  • The National Science Foundation's efforts to audit time-keeping could serve a useful purpose.

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  • Fifty years after the momentous launch of Sputnik, Russia has yet to find a scientific system that is anything close to meeting its twenty-first century needs.

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  • German scientists must persevere in the stem-cell debate, despite the occasional setback.

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  • A method of knocking out genes in mice needs more discrimination than many have recognized.

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  • Citizens are right to resist government pressure to expand population DNA databases.

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  • Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have revealed unacceptable shortcomings in UK regulation.

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