Editorials in 2012

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  • Japanese scientists deserve support in their bid for the next big collider.

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  • Unregulated drug marketing stifles science and harms patients. To suggest otherwise is an affront to liberty — not a protection of it.

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  • Despite some shortcomings, a global study of health metrics should be applauded.

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  • The political inertia that characterizes the world’s response to global warming cannot continue. Politicians and policy-makers must follow the climate’s lead — and change.

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  • Evidence for the first land life is controversial, but the fossil record has a tendency to surprise.

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  • The energy expended by US biomedical scientists on complaining about grant-application limits would be better directed at the real problem: stagnant funding.

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  • Wrangling over scientific misconduct could influence Romania’s general election.

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  • US science would benefit if Congress improved the predictability and stability of funding.

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  • With climate talks inching along, gains in energy efficiency could slow the rise in emissions.

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  • An influential US advocacy group has set a deadline to beat breast cancer by 2020. But it puts public trust at risk by promising an objective that science cannot yet deliver.

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  • Researchers should lobby against heavy cuts to pan-European research funds.

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  • Environmental protections must not wait until a population is about to disappear.

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  • The editors of this publication need to improve how we reflect women’s contributions to science. For this, we must inject an extra loop into our thinking.

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  • A market-based malaria-control programme may not be perfect, but it deserves to continue.

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  • The push to conserve cultural-heritage sites must not leave out areas of interest to science.

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  • Japan still has lessons to learn from Fukushima if it is to convince the public about nuclear energy.

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  • As looming tax increases and budget cuts threaten to plunge the US economy back into recession, Congress should take a hard look at introducing a carbon tax as an important part of the solution.

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  • Donors and African governments must invest in advanced science and maths education.

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  • The US National Ignition Facility has so far failed to generate fusion energy, but repurposing it as a tool to study nuclear weapons and basic science could be its saving grace.

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