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If you choose to follow any links to the abstract and/or complete text of the item listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley Reason as Our Guide. (... An essay by two members [one former member and one current member at the time of publication] of United States President George W. Bush's President's Council on Bioethics that expresses concerns over the content of two of the Council's reports "Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness" and "Monitoring Stem Cell Research." The authors describe specific concerns about the content and wording of the two reports and then go on to say that the public is done a disservice when science is presented incompletely; myths are then perpetuated. The authors conclude by stating these reports had as their premise the aim of neutrality in the scientific analysis of the issues addressed. But our concern is that some of their contents, as in the few examples outlined above, may have ended up distorting the potential of biomedical research and the motivation of some of its researchers. Continuing discussions will form the basis for future decisions on these topics; keeping such discussion open and balanced is of paramount importance. Other keywords and phrases -- adult, age-retardation research, aging, bioethical, cells, embryonic, fertility, government, hematopoietic, longevity, MAPCs, multipotent adult progenitor cells, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, public policy -- from the text of the article) PLoS Biology Volume 2, Number 4 (April 2004): pages 420-422. **The complete text of the article is available at http://www.plosbiology.org/archive/1545-7885/2/4/pdf/10.1371_journal.pbio.0020116-S.pdf (the Web site of PLoS Biology)** **The complete text of the reports mentioned in the article are available at http://bioethics.gov/reports/beyondtherapy/index.html (Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness; The President's Council on Bioethics) and http://bioethics.gov/reports/stemcell/index.html (Monitoring Stem Cell Research; The President's Council on Bioethics)** How to find the above journal, magazine, or other publication? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions? Please let me know. |
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