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February 2013's selection of notable quotes


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—Environmental advocate Mark Lynas, publicly apologizing for his 2-decade-long anti-GMO stance in a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference (Jan. 3, 2013)

—Physiologist and in vitro meat researcher Mark Post, quoted in “Inside the Meat Lab: The Future of Food” (The Guardian, Jan. 5, 2013)

—Two of the soul-bearing tweets posted in response to a request for scientists to divulge methodological unorthodoxies (Twitter hashtag #overlyhonestmethods, Jan. 7, 2012)

—Evolutionary microbiologist Carl Woese, who rewrote the tree of life with his discovery of archaea in 1977 and died on Dec. 30, 2012 (New York Times interview, Oct. 15, 1996)

—Paul Brookes, an associate professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center and a self-identified owner of the now-defunct Science Fraud blog, in a post explaining why ...

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