“Challenging the conventional wisdom is the way to make waves in science.”

[James Lovelock: Challenge the dogma! (Web of Stories), YouTube, 6 August 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA8FbEHsgus]

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independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist 1919

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