THE DEATH LOBBY

Influential journal plans push to publish more stem-cell studies: Editor: Deterring political opposition to research is goal (Raja Mishra, 7/17/2003, Boston Globe)

The world's most influential medical journal has pledged to aggressively seek out and publish research on embryonic stem cells to boost the controversial field's standing among politicians and the public.

The declaration by the Boston-based New England Journal of Medicine, in an editorial printed today, marks the publication's most significant foray into a broad societal debate perhaps since the 1980s, when its editors sought out papers on the then-controversial AIDS virus.

That's fine by us as long as this now openly political organization does not maintain tax exempt status. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 18, 2003 7:41 PM