First, to what extent does existing research provide a reliable and reasonable scientific basis for the notion that breast implants filled with silicone gel cause or exacerbate chronic illnesses such as autoimmune diseases?

ECONOMIST: Scientific justice

On the positive side, they can benefit from jurors' misguided notion that science solves crimes, and hence that the absence of crime-solving scientific evidence constitutes a reasonable doubt and grounds for acquittal.

ECONOMIST: Forensic science

Still, there is a reasonable fear here that an illusory hope of a scientific fix might undermine the sort of dogged and grubby policy solutions, such as carbon caps and carbon quotas, needed for taking the fight against climate change to its source.

ECONOMIST: How big science might fix climate change