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Published online 1 July 2009 | Nature 460, 19 (2009) | doi:10.1038/460019a
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Italians sue over stem cells
Government's exclusion of human embryonic cells from funding call sparks anger.
Three scientists are appealing against the Italian government's decision to exclude human embryonic stem cells from a recent call for proposals to fund stem-cell biology.
The scientists' lawyer, Vittorio Angiolini, who specializes in bioethics and human rights, filed the appeal with Rome's administrative court on 24 June.
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From what I learn of this particular case, I can recognize all the well known ingredients of low-level political management: complacency with ideologized lobbies, hipocrisy, lack of respnosibility. At least, the Bush administration always declared openly their prejudices, without hiding behind mean tricks, like the addition at the very last moment of clauses. What is worse, is that scientists have to waste time in legal cases, instead of doing their job. Vincenzo Antonuccio-Delogu/astrophysicist