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Soundbites

20 February 2008

“It is naive of ill-informed politicians and food industry executives to place the onus on individuals to make ‘healthier choices’.

Instead, the environment in which we live is the main factor amplifying the obesity epidemic, according to Phillip James of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (The Times, 18 February)

“There is ‘design’ in nature, and we should take that word away from the intelligent design movement.”

In a talk titled “Communicating Science in a Religious America”, biologist and key proponent of evolution …

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