Bioethics Story Wins Major Award

What series just won a prestigious award for revealing the most important research ethics scandal of the past year? Hint: it has nothing to do with Korea or cloning! Go see: [link].
-Art Caplan
[We blogged this as soon as it appeared - and while our blog post was read a lot, the story itself was hardly reprinted at all - which drove me absolutely bonkers. I wrote a big post about it that compared what these guys found to Tuskegee - Glenn]

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I agree that this story should have been covered a lot more than it did--in fact, this site is where I first discovered it. Yet we still seem to be much more fascinated by the exotic and rare as opposed to the more mundane issues of health care/research and the poor.
Just count the number of times a story about the stem cell research fraud appeared here on this site...

Yup you are right. No "holier than thou" here. You are right.

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