I heard this last night. With Marius, John Gearhart, and William Hurlbut.
Or if you like stupid conspiracy theories, read Larry Moran's summary of the stories spun by people with too much time on their hands. (BTW there is no way that the timing of the three stem cell papers had anything to do with the stem cell legislation, here's why.)
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Yesterday, stem cell researcher John Gearhart, Washington Post reporter Rick Weiss, and physician William Hurlburt appeared on NPR's Diane Rehm Show to discuss the latest in the stem cell debate.
In the days before the House vote to fund embryonic stem cell research, the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times ran page one stories heralding a Nature Biotech study that indicated stem cells extracted from amniotic fluid might have "near pluripotent" like properties.