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The Science Media Centre invited Professor Sir John Beddington into the SMC for a valedictory on his time as Chief Scientific Advisor to Government. He primarily talked about what he considered to be the main scientific challenges facing government and shared his thoughts on evidence based policy, the pros and cons of the precautionary principleb and scientific advice in government.