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HARDtalk: Sir John Sulston - Nobel Prize-winning scientist

30/04/2012

Sir John Sulston - Nobel Prize-winning scientist

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Stephen Sackur asks Sir John Sulston if science can help the human race change its ways.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist, and asks if science can help the human species change its ways.

Science is constantly changing and deepening our understanding of ourselves and our planet. So is it time to give scientists a more prominent role in the debate about humanity's strategic choices; economic, political and environmental. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist who has led a Royal Society study into the global impact of population growth two decades on from the Rio Earth Summit. Can science help the human species change its ways?

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