I reluctantly concur with the point made by the plaintiffs' counsel Samuel Casey (Nature 467, 27; 2010) that the court's decision to stop human embryonic stem-cell research is not a threat to the federal funding of science. No, allowing research agendas to be dictated by religious fundamentalists threatens the very enterprise of federally funded science itself.
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Cash, G. Embryonic stem cells: court decision a threat to science itself. Nature 467, 271 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467271b
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