Ones that got away - October 17, 2008
Revisiting the Miller-Urey experiment
PZ Myers looks at a paper in Science that says Stanley Miller’s historic experiment revealed more about the origins of life than previously believed.
“What we found is an inconsistent and too often controlling situation in many agencies.”
The Union of Concerned Scientists has been looking at US agencies’ policies on releasing scientific information. Slapped wrists for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Fish and Wildlife Service (Washington Post story, UCS report).
“Iran makes huge ostrich sandwich”
The BBC headline says it all really...
“The process was a sham and an insult to the people who took part.”
Greenpeace is raging after the UK’s Market Research Standards Board slammed a consultation run for the government into nuclear power as containing information that was “inaccurately or misleadingly presented, or was imbalanced” (reported by Civil Service Network).
