The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7436 p107
27 January 2007

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Onlooker

An inappropriate heading

From Miss A. K. Aslam, MRPharmS

Onlooker’s piece entitled “Science and Islam” (PJ, 13 January, p56) surprised me because, although it was interesting, it was not about science and Islam.

In fact, the bulk of it (minus one sentence which, in my opinion, did do justice to the title) discussed reasons for the lack of scientific research coming from Arab countries, and, as such, the heading given to the piece had the potential to misinform. This while Onlooker himself mentions in the piece that the biggest impediment to the progress of science in those countries “is not the faith but the absence of a scientific research culture”.

Given the sweeping generalisations that are made about the faith in headlines nowadays, and given that the article focused on the Arab countries, and that the article itself states that Islam is not an impediment to research, a heading such as “Science in the Arab world” or “More research needed” would have been more appropriate.

Atia Aslam
London

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