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If Western governments were more ready to acknowledge that there can be no effective civil defence against all-out nuclear attack, their forward planning would be less easily and less often ridiculed.
New ways of simulating the replication of abstract representations of living things are mathematically interesting and may yet reinterpret the second law of thermodynamics.
The reasons why the scientific literature hardly deserves that name are now well-known, yet glaring defects persist. Journals must share the responsibility with authors, the most obvious culprits.
