“You can imagine eco groups who imagine the world would be better off without human beings.”
Martin Rees, president of the UK’s Royal Society, on the threat of cults allied to technology, and the need for scientists to work with mainsteam religious groups to tackle such extremism (The Guardian, London, 29 May)
“It is no better than selling organs – they are taking advantage of people in a desperate situation.”
Reiner Hofmann of the Dutch Transplant Foundation on the Big Donor Show, in which TV viewers vote which of three contestants on dialysis should receive a kidney from a woman…
