ARE Europeans anti-science? Listening to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who made a major speech on science at the Royal Society in London last week, you could be forgiven for thinking so. Blair used as his theme a view of Europe expressed by biotech researchers in Bangalore, India. “They saw us as completely overrun by protestors and pressure groups who used emotion to drive out reason,” he said. Is this a true picture of modern Europe?
No. In practice, few people are anti-science per se. Yet huge numbers of Europeans will have no truck with genetically modified crops, and Britons…
