And while we’re grumbling about UK research grants, here’s more news about research grants doled out to radical utilitarians. A new UK-based institute has been established to research the ethics of science and innovation. Based at the University of Manchester, the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation has as its chair Sir John Sulston, a Nobel-winning pioneering geneticist, and as its research director John Harris, one of the most controversial of Britain’s bioethicists. He already holds research grants from the European Commission valued at around 1.5 million Euros. ~ BBC, July 4