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Why are politicians and scientists often at odds? Scientific rigour doesn’t always survive in a political system based on popularity and self- preservation. And we don’t have to look far to find examples of policy making that elevates economic or electoral essentials over environmental or health imperatives. It is scientists role to observe, question, research, create and explain – they present solutions for some of the world’s biggest problems. Politicians act as the brackets of possibility of what can be...