SOMEBODY TELL CHRIS MOONEY: A war against science: “He is resigned to the way that parents, policy-makers and fellow academics recoil from his findings. ‘Anybody who speaks ill of childcare is the enemy – end of story. The guy who first linked Aids with homosexuality back in the early 1980s was accused of being a homophobe. The same kind of idiotic, kneejerk, ideological reaction occurred here. People think I’m against daycare. What I say is, if the weather man says it is going to rain tomorrow, is that because he is against sunshine? People feel very defensive about this area.'”