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Although many who have worked in academia such as Fineberg support open publication of research, some academics remain skittish. Moreover, the most serious threat to open scientific research comes not from the politicos in the White House but from the academics whose intellectual strafing allows restrictions to advance. In his...
We might be adding milk from a cloned cow to our coffee. Scientists, policymakers and others convene in Dallas this week to debate the possibility. That's because farmers and biotech firms are already cloning prize livestock. A National Academy of Sciences report says research vouches for the safety of...
But as Sandel pointed out, the principled position that holds the potential for human life—such as an embryo—to have the same moral status as a person makes an outright ban on research cloning the only logical option. By voting for a moratorium, the members...
It is understandable, however, that the members of the committee would wish to drag out the debate over cloning. After all, some members make their money pontificating about the immorality with which science threatens humanity. They sometimes treat scientists (who composed less than one-fifth of the committee) much like...
How can scientists (all of whom on the committee voted to allow cloning research) win back the trust politicians and avoid being remembered (or mis-remembered) in history as the mistreated Leeuwenhoeks of the cloning debate? They need to make the opponents of cloning face up to slippery slope on...