Clive Cookson writes in the FT that "His [Sir John Maddox] appointment at the Guardian came when science correspondents were still a novelty. The late 1950s were an optimistic period for science and technology, with newspapers showing gung-ho enthusiasm for aerospace, astronomy, nuclear power and medical research. "
Would that we were living in such times again. We would be optimistic about science and technology; but skepticism, quite properly, prevails.
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