Sex, Drugs and DNA : Science's Taboos Confronted

by Stebbins, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781403993427
• ISBN10: 1403993424
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

"In this polemic, Dr. Michael Stebbins reveals what most biologists and politicians are afraid to, about what research can and, perhaps more importantly, cannot deliver. He leaves no can of worms unopened. He shows how truly novel and necessary work is being hobbled in the USA, currently the world's scientific goliath, and hence calls for wide-reaching changes in education, funding, legislation, publishing and promulgation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Mike Stebbins is the Director of Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists and a former US Congressional Fellow in Science Policy. Before that he was a senior editor at Nature Genetics after being a geneticist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He has written for Reuters, and numerous scientific journals and has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered. He is an advisor to ScienCentral, a National Science Foundation funded science TV news feed that goes out on the ABC and NBC affiliates and is based in New York. For more information on Dr. Stebbins and the book go to www.sexdrugsanddna.com.