The controversy and Glover's remarks, in an interview with Science illustrate the difficulties scientists face in trying to bring science to bear on policy.
We cited the story as an example of the difficulties scientists face when trying to ensure that policy is informed by good science.
In my 10 or so years in a science career, I have heard and participated in many discussions about the difficulties scientists face in pursuing careers while raising families difficulties that, regrettably, lead many talented women to leave the profession.
Rajendra Pachauri, a climate change scientist who shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, spoke about the difficulties scientists have in communicating the results of their work and welcomed Hollywood creatives to serve as messengers.
Because of these difficulties, scientists such as Jonathan Lunine have viewed Titan less as a likely habitat for life, than as an experiment for examining theories on the conditions that prevailed prior to the appearance of life on Earth.
With policy implications ranging from a permanent injunction or ban of hESC research to possible congressional legislation explicitly permitting federal funding of hESC, the current precarious nature of hESC research in the United States highlights the difficulties scientists face and serves as a possible barrier to international collaborations involving US researchers.
To overcome such difficulties, scientists have started developing in vitro engineered stem cell niches, with the aim to mimic the in vivo niche more closely than traditional cell culture methods.
The Dual-Science-Career-Couples Web site was born from a survey of the difficulties scientist couples experience when trying to find employment in the same location--far from giving a bleak perspective, the site offers solutions and useful links.
The difficulty for scientists and engineers is creating a system that gives out more energy than it consumes.
To overcome that difficulty, computer scientists and engineers began developing robots with keener sensitivity, thereby enlarging their capabilities.
