But since autumn, when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals opened a campaign against his research, he has drawn a torrent of outrage from animal rights activists, gay advocates and others around the world — all of it based, Roselli and colleagues said, on a bizarre misinterpretation of what the work is about.
Like a comic echo of the Terri Schiavo case, the story of the gay sheep became a textbook example of the distortion and vituperation that can result when science meets the global news cycle.
When science slams into the uninformed blogger
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The state would pay for stem-cell research, including studies using cells harvested from embryos, under a bill filed Tuesday in the Florida Legislature that might have new hope because of backing from Gov. Charlie Crist.
The proposal has failed before, but its chances may be enhanced this year with the support of Crist...
Stem-cell study a priority, Crist says [FL] governor backs legislation to have state pay millions
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I gather, in this writer's unstocked mind, it was emotional Terribots vs. science. Perhaps he can give us a scientific explanation of how Terri went from healthy to cardiac arrest late one night right after her lying husband came home? The medical examiner scientifically refuted Michael's pathetic alibi. Scientifically speaking, then, there is only one suspect and he has no alibi. I wonder if this writer can overcome his emotion enough to face these facts?