Opinion

Smoothing out the lumps

By 2019-01-29T14:00:00

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Conflicting views of chemistry have been published in the press

Is chemistry ‘pure revelation’ as neophyte Rupert Pennant-Rea writes in the Financial Times, or is it ’awkward and lumpy’ as an editorial in the Guardian would have it?