Suspended scientist offers olive branch to research body

SUSPENDED scientist Dr Anthony Turton has extended an olive branch to the organisation that gagged him. I have no anger in my heart, I have no belligerence, he said. I have no interest in pursuing this to a higher level: I just want to continue doing my work as a scientist. Turton was suspended last week after the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) ordered him not to deliver a hard-hitting presentation on South Africas water crisis at a CSIR conference in Pretoria. His...