As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to risk our lives and livelihoods, our government assures us it’s doing everything it can to develop treatments and vaccines. Instead, it’s using every play in an anti-science playbook to defund research and block medical researchers from making safe and effective discoveries. Read more >

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A Biased Science Board Threatens Future Fetal Tissue Research
Genna Reed, Senior Analyst
August 21, 2020 11:34 AM EDT

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Understanding the New Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research, and Attacks on the Scientists Who Use It
Michael Halpern, former deputy director, Center for Science & Democracy
June 5, 2019 6:21 PM EDT
If you want to understand the toxic and skewed discussion around the use of fetal tissue in research, the negative consequences for individual scientists and their work, and the consequences of these new restrictions, here are some good places to start. Read more >