“What would that accomplish? Do you really care where my cow walks every day?”
Jay Truitt of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, on US government plans for all farm animals to be fitted with an RFID tag to monitor potential disease outbreaks (, 24 April)
“It’s the collar. They look at me and think: sin has gone deep when even a man in a collar is buying condoms.”
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Canon Gideon Byamugisha of the Anglican Church of Uganda, on how he has to explain to disapproving fellow customers that both he and his wife are HIV-positive and use condoms to avoid infecting each other with a different strain (Los Angeles Times, 24 April)
“To start re-engaging in full-scale nuclear power as Europe seems determined to do is folly of the first order.”
Yuri Bandazhevsky, a scientist who was imprisoned in 2001 after criticising the government of Belarus for its response to the Chernobyl disaster, speaking out for the first time since his release last year (The Daily Telegraph, London, 24 April)
“People used to think snoring in children wasn’t a problem, it was just cute.”
Paediatrician Stuart Tomares on the growing awareness that obstructive sleep apnoea in children is a serious disorder, leading to irritability, learning disability and even stunted growth (, 25 April)
“I’ve been treating cocaine-addicted patients for something like 25 years, and I’ve never heard of anybody throwing away cocaine.”
Charles Dackis of the University of Pennsylvania on the unprecedented success of a pilot study which showed that the narcolepsy drug modafinil doubled the chances of cocaine addicts kicking the habit for at least three weeks (San Jose Mercury News, 24 April)
