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“You have to have an immediate effort to reduce greenhouse gases. Anything else is a fig leaf and a joke.”
US Senator John McCain urges his colleagues to tackle global warming in a highly contentious bill on energy policy.
“We cannot evade a liberalization of research on embryonic stem cells.”
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder argues that his country must relax its stem-cell policy in a speech at the University of Göttingen.
“This is a whitewash. They took all of our science and reversed it 180 degrees.”
In the Los Angeles Times, Erick Campbell protests that the government altered a report he helped to write on the impacts of grazing. The retired biologist says it was the cattle industry, not the environment, that benefited from the edits.
Number Crunch
A UK survey, released this week, found that many children wouldn't take science at all if they didn't have to. Why?
79% of British schoolchildren think scientists are clever.
7% think scientists are cool.
Source: OCR exam board
Scorecard
Sting fever
Japanese women are clamouring for the chance to spend a night with the jellyfish at Fujisawa's aquarium. The experience is said to relieve stress.
Slick move
Philip Cooney, the White House official who altered climate-change reports, returns to the oil industry with a new job at ExxonMobil.
Speech for the stars
NASA astronaut delivers the first-ever congressional testimony from space, showing lawmakers a surefire way to rise above partisan politics.
Milking it
We feel it in our bones: sales of calcium tablets are set to soar. A ten-year study has shown that the mineral can prevent premenstrual syndrome, although no one knows why.
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Sidelines. Nature 435, 1014 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/4351014a
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