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Stop Politicizing Scientific Terminology

Semantics in the Stem Cell Debate

By Jonathan D. Moreno, Sam Berger | March 21, 2007

The ongoing stem cell research and cloning debates in Kansas highlight a new frontier in the stem cell debate: attempts to define scientific terms for political advantage.

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This article was originally published in The Wichita Eagle.

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