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“These dolts are less dangerous than the BBC and its insistence on ‘balancing’ its coverage of climate change… It’s a bit like continually bringing people on… to suggest there is no link between HIV and AIDS.”

Writer George Monbiot on the way journalists report on climate change (The Guardian, London, 27 April)

“I do not believe it is legal for a religious group to hijack public policy.”

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)

“When the lesbian couple from Holland came to us, it was their wish to…

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