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The British Association is hitching its wagon to the campaign for public understanding of science. It should be cautious in its manner but more daring in its advocacy of causes.
Writing the rules that determine when quantum mechanics behaves non-locally in the language of information theory may carry important benefits, intuitive good sense particularly.