Lec 7 MIT 7.014 Introductory Biology, Spring 2005
Just very quickly, I mentioned to you the other day that article about Romney making a policy statement about embryonic stem cell research and said here were sort of examples of issues we were thinking about in this course that would come into your ordinary life. Here's on today's Globe there's, ìKennedy rips Romney over stem cell policy. This debate is continuing. It's on the front page of today's Boston Globe. We have two people neither of whom probably have the background in biology, that you guys are going to have by the time you finish this course, having to grapple with these very serious scientific issues that have all kinds of implications. Here's another thing. This was in yesterday's newspaper. This was on, I think, the second page of the Boston Globe. It's about a curator over at Harvard at The Museum of Comparative Zoology that got all these different birds, some of whom are extinct and something. And now the curator, instead...