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Scott Schneider, Edward Loechler, Jonathan King and Jonathan Beckwith of Science for the People reply to Alvin Weinberg's article ‘Science for the people, or by the people?’ (3 August, page 410).
David Dickson discusses how a dispute on the transportation of nuclear wastes reflects scientific and political uncertainties about waste management policy