The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7207 p97-101
20 July 2002

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Science in pharmacy

Stark contrast

From Mr J. Sharp, HonMRPharmS

Your issue of 13 July presents a stark, yet illuminating, contrast that could well be regarded as a classic. On p58, Professor Alexander Florence argues cogently for science as a (the, even) bedrock of pharmacy, as indeed it is of all things. The story on p48 ("Nottingham school of pharmacy shows role of molecules at BBC roadshows") seems to embrace a strangely unscientific view that molecules are odd things that occasionally impact upon everyday life. For example, the piece starts: "The role of molecules in the daily world is being highlighted at the BBC ... by a series of short films." Molecules do not merely, or incidentally, have a role in the "daily world". They are the daily world. They are the daily everything.

John Sharp

Woodley, Berkshire

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