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...Like many experts in the U.S. and Europe, the Russians don't really believe the scheme is feasible right now, and they are happy to watch the Americans spend large amounts of money on an unproven technology. Rice is discussing a defense proposition whose architecture doesn't exist right now. She's emphasizing that whatever is built will be transparent. The Bush people clearly have come some way in that they have held their ground and convinced the Russians that will go forward. Rice's discussions are not about whether a missile defense system will be built, but about...
...herbalism doesn't dwell on the scientific particulars. But why should it? You could have read a thousand times - perhaps in magazines like this one - that there's little or no scientific evidence for the promises made for many alternative therapies. And yet plenty of educated people regularly buy unproven "natural" remedies. (It's a multi-billion-dollar, multinational industry.) Diamond instead carefully defuses the anti-intellectualism that makes it possible to ignore the good science that questions such cures. "[Science] isn't one particular way of ascertaining a physical truth," Diamond writes. "By definition...
...UNDP believes those nations should be permitted to evaluate GM technology independently of Western political tensions. "There may well be food risks inherent in GM crops, but they are as yet unproven," says Mark Malloch Brown, administrator of the UNDP. "But those speculative risks have to take second place to the fact that hundreds of millions of people go to bed hungry every night. We?re not advocating the suspension of responsible public policy; just the opposite, in fact. We?re saying we cannot turn our back on prolonged malnutrition and hunger...
...century. But the Russians have refused to renegotiate the ABM treaty, and insist that it remains the cornerstone of all other arms control agreements. And both they and the Europeans believe Washington is overstating both the danger of "rogue" missile attacks, and also the abilities of an unproven system to defend against them...
...Europeans say: It's not worth abandoning existing arms-control treaties and potentially pushing the Russians into a new arms race in order to rush the deployment of an unproven system against an exaggerated threat...