Science, dogmas and the state

Rivevo l'info da Nature, forse la piu' prestigiosa rivista scientifica del mondo.
Non c'entra con Messina, ma c'entra con lo squallore che la ricerca rischia di diventare in questo paese bigotto.

Misrepresentation of stem-cell science in Italy by political and religious groups is damaging that nation’s laws and the funding and perceived value of biomedical research, argues Elena Cattaneo in a Book Review in Nature this week. In Staminalia: Le Cellule Etiche e i Nemici Della Ricerca (Staminalia: Ethical Cells and the Enemies of Research), Armando Massarenti describes the political and bioethical disputes under way in Italy.
Distortions coloured the law on in vitro fertilization passed by the Italian parliament in 2004 and made it illegal to derive embryonic stem cells from supernumerary frozen blastocysts. The political process itself stirred up wider opposition to stem-cell research. With few exceptions, the majority of Italian biomedical scientists protested against the law in a subsequent referendum campaign.

Non so se il link sotto richiede un abbonamento a Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/456444a.html