BMJ  2005;331 (17 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7517.0-f

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Stay at home

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It's conference season again. The summer break is over and people all over the globe are leaping on planes and heading off to exotic, and not so exotic, locations to flit through windowless conference centres in anonymous air conditioned airport hotels, to give or watch or sleep through ever more elaborate PowerPoint presentations in darkened lecture halls. It's fun. It's traditional. But is it necessary? And is it good for us or the planet?

The terror threat might have given pause to some of us. But not for long. In the immediate aftermath of the London bombs, Rubin and colleagues found that people were slightly less willing to travel by tube and bus (p 606), but necessity breeds courage, or indifference, and international airlines continue to report record passenger numbers. US immigration controls may put off others, especially Muslim academics, says Gavin Yamey after his strange brush with . . . [Full text of this article]

Fiona Godlee, editor

(fgodlee@bmj.com)


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