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As scientists, are the decisions we make all about weighing up cold hard facts or does the last time we ate come into play? Bruce Gibb offers us some food for thought.

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Gibb, B. Judicial chemistry. Nature Chem 4, 1–2 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1229

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