IT IS clearly desirable for popular scientific debate to be restricted to those issues about which there are legitimate scientific differences. Equally, it is clearly wrong to censor honest discussion. But where to draw the line?
“Where does limiting debate to genuine scientific differences become censorship?”
This tricky issue ambushed me last month. I am the outgoing chair of the , and my colleagues and I on the executive committee started receiving angry email messages from recipients of the forum’s recent newsletter, which is produced quarterly to encourage discussion and disseminate…
