The stem cells at issue are not the human-embryo cells used in medical research that have become embroiled in the national abortion debate.
Believing that "good scientists" ought to focus on their research and not get embroiled in politics sets up a situation in which the postdocs who do participate and voice their concerns aren't taken seriously.
It's understandable that a graduate who has spent years working on their Ph.D. thesis and embroiled in postdoctoral research is going to think twice about spending another 3 to 4 years at law school.
A senior Japanese scientist embroiled in a stem-cell research scandal has been found dead in an apparent suicide.
Dr. Felten became embroiled in the dispute last year after his research team, which includes scientists from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Rice University, participated in a competition sponsored by the S.D.M.I. group to test the security of a digital music copyright protection system.
Only last month, Dr Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology, hanged himself after becoming embroiled in an ongoing scandal over stem cell research.
He adds that it's difficult for academic scientists who want to do ground-breaking research to avoid spending a good deal of their time embroiled in academic politics, and it's also difficult for them to effect change.
By 1968, the drug was illegal – a bad decision, thinks Dr Sessa: "Ever since then research has been difficult and the authorities have found themselves embroiled in an un-winnable drug war, which has served only to fund the mafia, criminalise otherwise law-abiding drug users and, crucially, hamper all research into these safe and efficacious substances".
By 1968, the drug was illegal a bad decision, thinks Dr. Sessa: "Ever since then research has been difficult and the authorities have found themselves embroiled in an unwinnable drug war, which has served only to fund the mafia, criminalize otherwise law-abiding drug users, and, crucially, hamper all research into these safe and efficacious substances".
So reader, continue at your peril, as you learn that Kahan is now embroiled in a politically charged controversy in which, he says, his own research on the misinterpretation of scientific research is being deeply misinterpreted.
