Yes but most people like a face to focus on; 3,000 faceless scientists don't make a popular news story :-)The combination gives a face, and a famous name, plus solid institutional backing. Also it will annoy Bush and co. - despite their supposed change of mind on he issue. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
