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“The council should be restructured with an unfaltering focus on scientific excellence, or be replaced”
… And the government should then appoint Mike Lazaridis to lead it, I may add. But first he has to be appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire! You guessed it. This is not the kind of talk that … Continue reading
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