Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.

I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.