From letters in yesterday’s Guardian:- today is 9/11
Make America grate again > On 10 Nov 2016, at 08:00, Marjolein Thunnissen > <marjolein.thunnis...@maxiv.lu.se> wrote: > > Dear Bill, > > I fully agree with you, awareness has to be spread and one should not ignore > politics completely, especially when there are so strong anti-intellectual > (anti-science) statements out there. > > best regards > > Marjolein > >> On 10 Nov 2016, at 04:17, William G. Scott <wgsc...@ucsc.edu> wrote: >> >> Dear Edward et al: >> >> I agree we shouldn’t engage in partisan arguments on the CCP4bb. However, I >> think it is a mistake, and perhaps a missed opportunity, to ignore politics >> completely. >> >> For example, Newt Gingrich is currently in the running for Sec HHS. He has >> previously written editorials in the NYT and Wall Street Journal advocating >> doubling the budget of the NIH. >> >> I think it is incumbent upon us to make our voices heard if such an >> opportunity arises, regardless of what one may happen to think about the >> individual’s political orientation, as it could potentially be of enormous >> benefit to the scientific community. >> >> Yours faithfully, >> >> William G. Scott >> Director, Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology >> Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry >> and The Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA >> University of California at Santa Cruz >> Santa Cruz, California 95064 >> USA >> >> http://scottlab.ucsc.edu >> >>> On Nov 9, 2016, at 9:02 AM, Edward Snell <esn...@hwi.buffalo.edu> wrote: >>> >>> As a Brexit and Trumpet affected person having a foot in both countries >>> ,this topic is too far off the normal discussion on CCP4 and probably >>> better taken up privately. CCP4 is not a political discussion site. With >>> CCP4 the signal is unusually high and the noise low when compared to any >>> discussion board. I for one would like to keep it there. Political views >>> aside, we’re all trying to achieve the same scientific goals. Let’s >>> remember that and keep that the focus. >>> >>> Edward Snell Ph.D. >>> President and CEO Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute >>> Assistant Prof. Department of Structural Biology, University at Buffalo >>> 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203-1102 >>> Phone: (716) 898 8631 Fax: (716) 898 8660 >>> Skype: eddie.snell Email: esn...@hwi.buffalo.edu >>> <image003.png> >>> Heisenberg was probably here! > > <C4154D26-9A1E-40FB-A300-3E0B0EF84E6A[14].png> > > > > > > > Dr. Marjolein Thunnissen > Head User Office > > MAX IV Laboratory > Lund University > P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden > Visiting address: Fotongatan 2, 225 94 Lund > Telephone: +46 46 2224668 > Mobile: +46 766 32 04 17 > www.maxliv.lu.se > >
