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EDITORIAL 50 per cent with the downturn of each It’s not what we grow, Hard times economic cycle. The global downturn is no different: church leaders (and psychics) are it’s the way we grow it make for now reporting brisk business. Uncertain times cause us to cast about soft heads more widely for explanations of our EUROPE has by far the strictest rules for the circumstances – and rational reasoning, alas, approval of genetically modified crops, but A rational world view suggests does not always come naturally when we are are they enough? Firms developing GM crops that we are going to cling more desperate for answers. It is ironic that science have to go the extra mile to convince is revealing our modern, sophisticated, regulators that they won’t damage human to belief as the recession bites scientific world view to have a fragile hold on health or the environment – and that’s as it our minds (see page 30). But there are also should be. Trials completed in 2003 showed SCIENCE has allowed us to smooth over lessons to be learned. First, we ought to be that two herbicide-resistant GM crops were many of the natural ups and downs of more understanding of seemingly irrational worse for farmland wildlife than their human existence. We have pre