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To whom it may concern: Shinya Yamanaka is not your personal moral crusader

“The facts speak for themselves,” is a favorite maxim. Sometimes they do. But when they don’t? This liminal state between unequivocal truth and falsehood is where politics finds itself a comfortable home. The time following the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine presents a special opportunity for the public communication of …

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Science: lies straight from the pit of hell

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