“I want the Republicans to stop their witch-hunt against researchers and research projects that don’t meet ideological litmus tests.”
Democrat Henry Waxman on allegations that members of the Bush administration are trying to strip funding from studies they find politically uncomfortable, including AIDS research (Los Angeles Times, 28 October)
“The sea could become more important than the rainforest as a potential medical chest.”
Reuben HenrÃquez of Spanish company Phramar, which has derived a cancer treatment from sea squirts (The Times, 27 October)
“It works in such a wide variety of critters. Why would it not work in humans?”
Leonard…
