If you thought rationality is only under attack in the US, think again.

“The verdict is perverse and the sentence ludicrous”. It called for protests against the sentence’s severity and at scientists being criminalized “for the way their opinions were communicated”.

Leading political figures in Italy suggested that the case had blurred the lines between science and public life. “The risk is that doubt will no longer be allowed to form part of scientific judgement. The role of science is not the same as politics or administration.”

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