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Letter: Another reason to do science

Published 15 December 2015

From Alan Harris

Bill Summers claims “science serves no practical purpose unless it leads to a design” (Letters, 28 November). Science serves many practical purposes that have nothing whatsoever to do with design. I refrain from standing next to sources of gamma radiation precisely because a scientist discovered that it would harm me. I find that a very practical purpose.
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK

Issue no. 3052 published 19 December 2015

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