SCIENCE STALLED: The government shutdown has shuttered landmarks, such as the Lincoln Memorial, and hobbled science.REIVAX/FLICKR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
—Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, on the impact of the US government shutdown (The New York Times, October 7)
— Stanford University pediatrician and biostatistician Steven Goodman, on a federal court decision to convict W. Scott Harkonen, former CEO of InterMune, of fraud by overstating a drug’s benefit in a press release (The Washington Post, September 23)
—University of Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, responding to a question about whether religious fanaticism or scientific advancement would lead to mankind’s ultimate undoing (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, September 24)
—British naturalist and animal documentary filmmaker David ...
