Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDick TaverneDick Taverne is a member of the House of Lords and of its Science and Technology Committee. Five years ago he founded the charity Sense About Science, of which he is chairman, to promote the evidence-based approach to the public discussion of scientific issues. He is the author of “The March of Unreason – Science, Democracy and the New Fundamentalism” (Oxford University Press) and in 2006 he was voted by the Association of British Science Writers “Parliamentary Science Communicator of the Year”.
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