Vivienne Parry is a writer and broadcaster. She has a weekly column in The Times Body & Soul section and is their medical science correspondent. Vivienne contributes features to The Times as well as the Guardian, Mail on Sunday and many other newspapers. She is science editor of Good Housekeeping and writer-in-residence for the Foresight Obesities Project at the Office of Science and Innovation. Her most recent book, The Truth About Hormones was critically acclaimed and shortlisted for the 2006 Aventis Science Prize. |
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"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times