“Scientists, just like every other trade – bus drivers, lawyers and bricklayers – are a mix. Most are pretty average, a few are geniuses, some are a bit thick, and some dishonest.”

John Krebs, zoologist and principal of Jesus College, Oxford, takes on those who claim something has ‘gone wrong with science’ in the wake of climate-gate (The Times).

“I did reflect one day when I saw the way the Government was being criticised for the absence of salt on the roads for the snow that comes once every decade and then in the same breath being criticised for over-preparing for influenza, which comes once every 20 years.”

Andrew Witty, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, talks to the Telegraph.

“Entirely separate from love graffiti, sex graffiti reaches its one and only peak in December, before declining for the rest of the school year. Perhaps students also ‘get lucky’ in the summer— but if so, the luckiest part is that they’re not in the library to write about it.”

Quinn Dombrowski, has been constructing a ‘pseudo-scientific analysis’ of graffiti left in the main library at the University of Chicago (Inkling Magazine).