As Bill Clinton and others have learned to their cost, in the end it’s not
the misdemeanour that brings you down but the cover-up. If the British
government was not last week trying to bury the news that its scientists had
wasted four years injecting mice with the wrong sort of brain tissue, it had a
very strange way of showing it. Not only did it issue a statement on Wednesday
night long after most journalists had gone home. It chose to write it in alien
code. Worse, everything the government has said since about the fiasco has
simply piled…
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