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World Congress
for Freedom of Scientific Research
the bulletin
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Number 16, September 2010
- The Proposed End of Life Choices (Scotland) Bill. An Interview with Margo MacDonald, MSP. “My bill is not a carte blanche legalisation of assisted suicide, it is very specific in that it names two groups of people: terminally ill people or people with a progressive degenerative condition for whom life has become intolerable as they approach what could be a really awful end-of-life experience”. Read the full interview by Francesco Sani
- The biological open source. Interview with Dr. Richard A Jefferson, Chief Executive Officer of CAMBIA, enabling innovation: “Biology is a field of study and open source is a mode of innovation. And they're very different. So I describe it as biological open source or biological innovation through open source”. Read the full interview
- Law to allow cost reimbursement of in vitro insemination in Poland. Ruling PO party will present a new law on in vitro insemination, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has declared. The new law which will allow for reimbursement of the costs of such insemination. Read more
- Country report on freedom of research: New South Wales (Australia). The country of the month is New South Wales (Australia) surveyed by the students of Bryant University. According to the report, the idea of artificial insemination is one which is embraced not only in New South Wales, but throughout most of Australia. The only facet that is not almost completely free is the idea of surrogacy. As for the issue of stem cell research, Australia, more specifically New South Wales, is striving to be at the forefront of stem cell research in the world. Australia, specifically New South Wales, is highly restrictive in regards to abortions. The practice of active euthanasia constitutes a murder in all common law jurisdiction. The report is still incomplete in some fields. You can help monitoring freedom of research and cure in your country and in the world. Any contribution will be fully acknowledged. Read more.
- "Freedom of research and eco-fundamentalism”. “My topic is agricultural research. I am concerned with the opposition to genetically modified crops. It is one of the key battlefields of science versus anti-science. It is also under threat, not from religious fundamentalism, but from eco-fundamentalism. … But how does this affect the freedom of research? It affects it in three ways: through crop destruction, overregulation and stirring up public opinion”. Read on line the full text by Lord Dick Taverne (from the proceedings of the Second Meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research).
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