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Room for Religion? On the Fast Track Animal Rights M.D.s in the Lab Date: March 21, 1988 The article Salam on Science and World Development” and its accompanying sidebar on science and religion (February 8, 1988, p. 20) struck me as being perfectly reasonable: an outstanding scientist, his belief in the supernatural, and his integration of Islam and physics. However, such an article today about a scientist who is a Christian would probably never appear in THE SCIENTIST, or if i

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Room for Religion?

On the Fast Track

Animal Rights

M.D.s in the Lab

Date: March 21, 1988

The article Salam on Science and World Development” and its accompanying sidebar on science and religion (February 8, 1988, p. 20) struck me as being perfectly reasonable: an outstanding scientist, his belief in the supernatural, and his integration of Islam and physics. However, such an article today about a scientist who is a Christian would probably never appear in THE SCIENTIST, or if it did would be resoundingly censored by non-religious scientists as a fall back to irrational thinking. Can you imagine printing the following interview (modeled on the sidebar to the Salam piece) with a well-respected scientist? (My apologies to Salam.)

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Q: What is your view of the burgeoning of Christian fundamentalism in the United: States today? Scientist: I am well aware that I have made myself unpopular in certain ...

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