It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.

There is no unique picture of reality.

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.