From Global Warming to Dolly the Sheep: An Encyclopaedia of Social Issues in Science and Technology

It used to be quite a nice job being a scientist. You did not get much money, and tended to be treated as a complete idiot on any subject other than science, but you were allowed to wear a white coat, stay in your lab and, more or less, get on with it. Nowadays, however, most of the scientists of my acquaintance wear suits more often than white coats, as they are spending more of their time trying to impress grant‐awarding bodies than in laboratory work, and much of the rest of their time getting through ethics committees and coping...