A swatter whose act led to the killing of a family by a SWAT team has been sentenced to a long prison term.

He deserves punishment, but the danger of SWAT teams is not limited to malicious false alarms. They endanger people every day by carrying out the usual duties that have been assigned to them. To make SWAT teams less dangerous, we should eliminate most of them.

Some scientists and campaigns want to ban the release of gene drives.

There are ways that gene drives could cause ecological harm — for instance, it could cause global extinction of a species, maybe even jump to other species. However, I think the right way to deal with that issue is to require each release of a gene drive to be protected by multiple redundant safety measures, far in excess of what appears to be sufficient.

Everyone: call on Mondelez to stop buying palm oil from Wilmar.

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US citizens: call on Congress to give us real climate leadership.

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Everyone: call on SAExploration not to do seismic testing in the Arctic Refuge.

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