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. 2004 Apr;2(4):E116.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020116. Epub 2004 Mar 5.

Reason as our guide

Elizabeth Blackburn  1 , Janet Rowley
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Reason as our guide

Elizabeth Blackburn et al. PLoS Biol. 2004 Apr.

Abstract

Two scientist members of the President's Council on Bioethics express their concerns about two recently issued reports by the Council in which the science is presented incompletely and myths are perpetuated

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References

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