Brian Monteith: See through this smokescreen on children's health
Then there's the undeniable fact that I am of a Conservative disposition, which in Scotland puts my popularity on a par with Ratner's jewellery, and just as fashionable. To add to this, my background is nearly 30 years as a public relations consultant. Once a spin-doctor, then a Tory politician-cum-journalist - I suppose it could have been worse, I might have been a lawyer.
Of course, there are good politicians and bad, good lawyers and bad, so it is actually lazy to generalise; but why is it that we seem so accepting, so gullible even, of what scientists tell us? Do scientists not have their own agendas, their own personal motivations that might get in the road of their objectivity when it comes to telling us what they have been researching?
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