āThese dolts are less dangerous than the BBC and its insistence on ābalancingā its coverage of climate changeā¦ Itās a bit like continually bringing people onā¦ to suggest there is no link between HIV and AIDS.ā
Writer George Monbiot on the way journalists report on climate change (The Guardian, London, 27 April)
āI do not believe it is legal for a religious group to hijack public policy.ā
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Former Superman actor Christopher Reeve attacks the influence of religion on stem cell research in the US (debate at the Royal Society, London, 21 April)
āWhen the lesbian couple from Holland came to us, it was their wish to have a baby bearing the genes of both of them. We have received a phone call from them today. Clonaid team is ready to try this new endeavor. We are sure that the law in the country where we operate doesnāt prevent this.ā
Brigitte Boisselier of Clonaid, the organisation linked to the Raelian sect, after the birth of a mouse with two mothers (press release, 25 April) Clonaid claims to have created human clones but has never provided any proof
āI really feel like we were treated unfairly.ā
Salt Lake City resident Isabelle Leota. She and her husband, who are on the Atkins diet, were kicked out of local buffet restaurant āChuck-A-Ramaā after eating only meat (AP, 23 April)
āAll the maniacs in the world write to me.ā
A comment attributed to Albert Einstein in the recently discovered diary written by his confidante Johanna Fantova (AP, 26 April)
