29 December 2006

American science falls behind

The Guardian today features an article describing the absurd situations created in American research facilities, at least those with significant private funding, by the Bush administration's gift to the religious right in the form of the effective ban on human stem cell research.

Communications between different projects in the same facility is restricted or barred. Equipment is ring fenced so that it may not be used by stem cell projects. It's a wonder that the scientists are allowed to talk to each other at lunch; maybe they don't.

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