He was particularly critical of the coalition's decision-making on research funding, complaining that the Haldane Principle – the idea that research priorities should be set by researchers, not politicians – has been thrown out of the window.
A paper by a group of researchers headed by Lennart Bengtsson, a University of Reading research fellow, was turned down for publication by Environmental Research Letters.
Researchers have also found that climate change-enhanced heat and humidity are conducive to the spread of falciparum malaria, the disease's deadliest strain.
But researchers warn the UK is too dependent on China for its international numbers, and that it is losing out on Indian students.
The ice around the edge of Antarctica is melting faster than previously thought, potentially unlocking metres of sea-level rise in the long-term, researchers have warned.
Her posthumous fate, suggests Reid (who has no religious faith), seemed preferable to heaven or hell: My wife is in there, somewhere, doing practical work: her organs and tissues are educating young doctors or helping researchers outwit the disease that outwitted her.
The researchers conducting the drug trials opted to give the treatments to all patients who want them, with the support of a World Health Organisation ethics committee, which decided that the death rate was so high it would be unethical to deprive anybody of a drug that might work.
Plans were announced to replace its 150 researchers, statisticians and analysts with "robopolling" and online surveys.
Indigenous people in the Northern Territory consumed about 16.9 litres of pure alcohol a year, the researchers found, compared with 10 litres in the general population.
If researchers feel it necessary to publish in certain subscription journals, there is always the option to use the green open access model and self-archive an author copy in an open repository.
Secret, internationally approved war crimes indictments of tens of thousands of Nazis have been released to researchers at Soas, University of London, after a seven-year fight, and will soon be made available to the public.
