“You offend God… by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations.”
In an interview with the Vatican’s official newspaper, Bishop Gianfranco Girotti described seven new “social sins”. The others include taking or dealing in drugs, paedophilia and abortion (l’Osservatore Romano, 10 March)
“People think that if they take a medication, their body absorbs it and it disappears, but of course that’s not the case.”
US Environmental Protection Agency scientist Christian Daughton, commenting on an investigation into pharmaceuticals appearing in drinking water in 24 major metropolitan areas of the US (Associated Press, 10 March)
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