News & Views item - July 2007

 

 

Threat of Death of UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee Protested by Top British Scientists. (July 22, 2007)

    Below we reprint the short article published by The Guardian prompted by the letter which includes the signatures of the President of the Royal Society and four of Britain's Nobel Laureates.

What Prime Minister Gordon Brown's response is to be will be considered by many a first indication of his views to what degree of influence his nation's scientists will have on the formulation of UK science policy.