Medvedev has people with the same vested interests standing in the way who he inherited from a previous regime.

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"This is going to be about who decides - the people of Peterborough or a handful of politicians with vested interests, " he said.

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Dr. Nickerson noted that science is replete not only with examples of great scientists tenaciously persisting with theories "long after the evidence against them had become sufficiently strong to persuade others without the same vested interests to discard them" but also with brilliant people who remained wedded to their pet hates.

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