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“It’s more important than ever to educate our contemporaries’ consciences so that science does not become the criterion for goodness.”

Pope Benedict XVI warns academics against the “seductive” powers of science at a Vatican meeting sponsored by the Paris Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Reuters, 28 January)

“The law tends to assume that criminal behaviour is a matter of free will. I wonder if that is entirely true.”

Bernard Gesch of the UK charity Natural Justice, in support of a project led by researchers at the University of Oxford to provide young prison inmates with vitamin…

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