Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Brenner , Sydney (1997-10-23), Loose ends from Current biology, Retrieved on 2012-01-28Source Material [books.google.com]
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28 JAN 2012
The Fictitious Orion Society
I learnt very quickly that the only reason that would be accepted for not attending a committee meeting was that one already had a previous commitment to attend a meeting of another organization on the same day. I therefore invented a society, the Orion Society, a highly secret and very exclusive society that spawned a multitude of committees, sub-committees, working parties, evaluation groups and so on that, regrettably, had a prior claim on my attention. Soon people wanted to know more abou...A society that Brenner came up with as an excuse to have a prior engagement that would keep him from attending other meetings.