Stand your ground

摘要

Despite great hostility and even a death threat Patrick Bateson is still optimistic that his ground-breaking research will lead to a permanent ban on deer-hunting in Britain.rnShameful though it may seem, scientists do sometimes bend the evidence to suit their convictions. In his book A Rum Affair Karl Sabbagh tells the bizarre story of an eminent botanist who was convinced that certain plants—relics from before the last ice age—would be found in the Hebrides. So sure was he that, instead of waiting to find them, he planted the evidence himself on the island of Rum.