Yet again, we are shown how responsibilities to parliament and our *cough* representatives are over looked by a government that seem to have trouble with the concept of a our type of governance.

I suppose you could say the PM had a brown out when working this out.

I hope they don't dilute the committee that is overseeing science, seeing as it'll be overseeing quite a few groups. It should be overseen by a group of peers, but seeing as its a number of different groups/branches, it could fall foul to not being scrutinised properly.

<<Dr Brian Iddon MP, a member of the committee, speaking to El Reg at an ID conference today>>

That'll be an Intelligent Design conference then?

The US government has gotten along quite well without any science oversight for quite a while. Who needs science when you have politics?

"The US government has gotten along quite well without any science oversight for quite a while. Who needs science when you have politics?"

Who needs politics when you have fundamental religion? Any fool can see the Earth is flat!

>>"The US government has gotten along quite well without any science oversight for quite a while. Who needs science when you have politics?"

>Who needs politics when you have fundamental religion? Any fool can see the Earth is flat!

As a physicist I can categorically prove that the Earth is NOT flat. It is very slightly concave to prevent the water running of the edges.