“If we don’t play God, who will?”
James Watson on genetic engineering (DNA: The Story of Life, Channel 4 television, London, 8 March)
“Destroying [terrorist] recruiting organizations may be successful in the near term but even more resistant organizations could emerge.”
Psychologist Scott Atran on how to stop suicide bombers (Science, 7 March)
“It could tie up the AIDS funding bill for weeks and weeks and weeks.”
Holly Burkhalter of Physicians for Human Rights on how abortion opponents are holding up the US’s £15 billion fund for global AIDS programmes (The New York Times, 6 March)
“Our country deserves a minister who is serious about fighting…
