Professor John Martin, one of the world’s leading heart disease experts, has controversially compared the UK’s science journalists to the greedy bankers who have sparked the economic meltdown. He believes that the hyping and sensationalising of recent developments in science like stem cell research will lead to a similar collapse of faith in science and now himself boycotts the British press in favour of reading Le Monde and the Algemeiner Zeitung. But the Good Professor has met his match in Lord Drayson, the UK’s new science minister who, despite being mauled at the hands of the British press in recent years, has long argued that the UK’s science reporters are amongst the best in the world. Lord Drayson has challenged Professor Martin to a verbal duel for the entertainment and edification of the visiting reporters. Ably refereed by Edward Stourton, presenter of the BBC’s Today programme , let battle commence..........

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