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The British government has reacted with hysteria to the indiscretions of a junior minister and to the wishes of its voters that the genus salmonella would go away.
The scientific literature, as literature, is much despised, and rightly. Should not the turning of another year be an occasion when its authors resolve to mend their ways?
The huge potential of space for science, exploration and peaceful applications could be jeopardized by debris in Earth orbit, and by an extraterrestrial arms race.
