鈥淒ealing with plastic bags is easy鈥� It threatens no one, makes money for the shops and ensures that everyone feels better about themselves, while continuing to trash the biosphere just as we did before.鈥�
, complaining that making plastic shopping bags environmental enemy number one is distracting us from the real tasks we face
鈥淭he International Space Station, which serves no useful purpose anyway, should be given to China and the crew sent home on the Soyuz.鈥�
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An open letter to President Obama from physicist Bob Park on his widely read listserv
鈥淭he central myth which shields our failed drug laws from challenge and scrutiny is that decriminalization or legalization will cause an explosion of increased drug use. That is patently false.鈥�
acknowledges the success of drug decriminalisation in Portugal
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48 per cent of Americans think religion will help answer the US鈥檚 problems, a has found 鈥� the lowest proportion ever
AGNOTOLOGY
The study of deliberately created ignorance 鈥� such as the falsehoods about evolution that are spread by creationists