Re: Some of our boys (and girls) made the list!

In article <127kopg8ggvd8a5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jo Schaper wrote:
6th Worst Job in Science according to Popular Science magazine:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/806ffb24a5f27010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/5.html


3. Kansas Biology Teacher
On the front lines of science's devolution

Much more like "cruel and unusual punishment.
Could a US judge sentence a miscreant Kansas preacher to a year of trying to
proselytise in Aberdeen ("Britain's most Godless City", AGAIN!, according to a
god-squaddie at the street market on Saturday!)? Or would the ban on "cruel and
unusual punishment" kick in, and get him a holiday in Guantanamo instead?

1. Human Lab Rat
Warning: Pesticides are bad for you
Has the guy not been reading the news ... Oh, OK, he was writing late last
year. It seems that recruitment to drug trials of various sorts is plummeting in
Britain, and likely the rest of the civilised world, because of the near-death of 6
participants in a London drug trial a couple of months ago. I'd expect the prices to
have gone up *a lot*, particularly amongst that standby of the summer vacation
student.

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Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Mon, 29 May 2006 08:39 +0100, but posted later.

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