I guess it doesn't require much in the way of brains to be considered a "scientist" in Britain
That's fighting talk from the Americans: the people who invented the HIV virus out of whole cloth and poisoned 50,000 of their own people with AZT.
But - Lovelock doesn't impress, does he? I do hope hehas more on his CV than "I was the first person to start babbling about Gaia"