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“Tea works. You can drink enough to have an effect.”

Les Baillie of the Welsh School of Pharmacy at Cardiff University, UK, on his study showing that English breakfast tea, drunk black, protects against anthrax and so could be a useful anti-bioterror agent (The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 March)

“Nobody has the right to unfettered liberty, and people do not have a right to endanger their kids.”

Bioethicist John Harris of the University of Manchester, UK, on parents in Belgium who were sentenced to five months in jail after refusing to vaccinate their children against polio (AP, 12 March)

“To survive, there are two things a…

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