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STEM CELLS– POLITICS DON’T SLOW SCIENCE (Channel 3000)

We take very seriously the discussion of stem cell research in this fall’s election campaigns. Candidates in a number of races have seized on the issue as a way to distinguish themselves and in some cases the debates can be quite substantive. But in every instance there is the threat of substantial harm to some of the most promising science of our time. And too often it is the result of a confusion of politics with policy.