Opinion in 1994

The University of Chandigarh in India has been disgracefully lenient with Professor V.J. Gupta.

The deal between the United States and North Korea is not the climb-down it may appear, but should spur the nuclear powers to a comprehensive test-ban treaty before next year.

Politicians accused of conflicts of interest may be a model for ethics in the research community.

Poor Britain's plans for the beginning of a new millennium will be almost literally in the lap of the gods.

A gloomy view of modern society based on the assumption that those in charge form a “cognitive élite” which is likely to be dynastic mischievously begs too many questions.

The European Commission must exert itself in matching cultural diversity with economic unity.

The spacecraft Magellan, due to end its sojourn around Venus on 11 October, is a success for NASA.

On recent precedent, the latest crop of defendants in the French contaminated-blood saga will not be given a fair trial; some are already the victims of double-jeopardy.

Raptors, and falcons in particular, may have forfeited their right to conservation.

India's recent plague may have been something else, but the need remains to know more of the animal reservoir.

A plan to build a British university in Thailand deserves the ridicule it will attract.

Against next year's review conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the nuclear powers need something tangible to offer their critics. An interim fixed-term comprehensive test-ban is the best opportunity.

Academic institutions must be more zealous in policing arrangements between employees and industry.

Unexpectedly rapid progress towards the sequencing and listing of the genes in the human genome has caused a flurry of excitement (and injured pride) in the genome community which is likely to surface in Washington next week.

If the threat of global warming is serious (which cannot be denied), it deserves more seemly ways of making authoritative opinion public than that followed at last week's meeting at Maastricht.

Africa deserves a big share of the pride in early hominid discoveries.

Sir Karl Popper, who died a week ago, was a combatant on every intellectual battlefield he could find.

Over-zealous patenting of mutated genes could decelerate discoveries the law intends to encourage.

The US administration has let the new tariff agreement drift too long — and dangerously.

The Vatican's disruption of the Cairo population conference last week is a sign that it should in future enjoy the status of just another pressure group in relation to international negotiations.