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Scientist fired by Bush Admin wins Nobel Prize
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn FRS, born November 26, 1948, in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the President's Council on Bioethics. Blackburn was appointed a member of the President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics in 2001. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration. Her Council terms were terminated by White House directive on February 27, 2004. This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. "There is a growing sense that scientific research -- which, after all, is defined by the quest for truth -- is being manipulated for political ends," wrote Blackburn. "There is evidence that such manipulation is being achieved through the stacking of the membership of advisory bodies and through the delay and misrepresentation of their reports." Blackburn serves on the Science Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute. - - - Thankfully, the D'oh Presidency is over. |
Scientist fired by Bush Admin wins Nobel Prize
On Oct 5, 8:53*pm, H the K wrote:
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn FRS, born November 26, 1948, in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the President's Council on Bioethics. Blackburn was appointed a member of the President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics in 2001. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration. Her Council terms were terminated by White House directive on February 27, 2004. This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. "There is a growing sense that scientific research -- which, after all, is defined by the quest for truth -- is being manipulated for political ends," wrote Blackburn. "There is evidence that such manipulation is being achieved through the stacking of the membership of advisory bodies and through the delay and misrepresentation of their reports." Blackburn serves on the Science Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute. - - - Thankfully, the D'oh Presidency is over. On September 26, 2009 Krausie wrote: “Very few of the few posts I post initiate political crap!” |
Scientist fired by Bush Admin wins Nobel Prize
On Oct 5, 8:53*pm, H the K wrote:
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn FRS, born November 26, 1948, in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the President's Council on Bioethics. Blackburn was appointed a member of the President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics in 2001. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration. Her Council terms were terminated by White House directive on February 27, 2004. This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. "There is a growing sense that scientific research -- which, after all, is defined by the quest for truth -- is being manipulated for political ends," wrote Blackburn. "There is evidence that such manipulation is being achieved through the stacking of the membership of advisory bodies and through the delay and misrepresentation of their reports." Blackburn serves on the Science Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute. - - - Thankfully, the D'oh Presidency is over. But Harry: "This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. " I just looked at that statement and it makes sense. Most bureaucrats and politicians get "fired" (voted out) "because of political opposition to their advice" |
Scientist fired by Bush Admin wins Nobel Prize
On Oct 5, 9:53*pm, H the K wrote:
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn FRS, born November 26, 1948, in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the President's Council on Bioethics. Blackburn was appointed a member of the President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics in 2001. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration. Her Council terms were terminated by White House directive on February 27, 2004. This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. she should have said the earth is 6000 years old. bush would have kept her. |
Scientist fired by Bush Admin wins Nobel Prize
On 10/6/09 7:26 AM, wf3h wrote:
On Oct 5, 9:53 pm, H the wrote: Elizabeth Helen Blackburn FRS, born November 26, 1948, in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the President's Council on Bioethics. Blackburn was appointed a member of the President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics in 2001. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration. Her Council terms were terminated by White House directive on February 27, 2004. This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. she should have said the earth is 6000 years old. bush would have kept her. I've been keeping loose track of the states U.S. Nobel Prize winners live in or work in, just for giggles, mind you. Their favorite color seems to be...blue. What a surprise. -- Birther-Deather-Tenther-Teabagger: Idiots All |
Scientist fired by Bush Admin wins Nobel Prize
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:01:58 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote: On Oct 5, 8:53*pm, H the K wrote: Elizabeth Helen Blackburn FRS, born November 26, 1948, in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the President's Council on Bioethics. Blackburn was appointed a member of the President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics in 2001. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration. Her Council terms were terminated by White House directive on February 27, 2004. This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. "There is a growing sense that scientific research -- which, after all, is defined by the quest for truth -- is being manipulated for political ends," wrote Blackburn. "There is evidence that such manipulation is being achieved through the stacking of the membership of advisory bodies and through the delay and misrepresentation of their reports." Blackburn serves on the Science Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute. - - - Thankfully, the D'oh Presidency is over. But Harry: "This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. " I just looked at that statement and it makes sense. Most bureaucrats and politicians get "fired" (voted out) "because of political opposition to their advice" What I find curious is that for a country WITH THE WORST HEALTHCARE IN THE WORLD, we sure seem to have an awful lot of Nobel Prize winners in medicine. |
Scientist fired by Bush Admin wins Nobel Prize
On 10/6/09 7:57 AM, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:01:58 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Oct 5, 8:53 pm, H the wrote: Elizabeth Helen Blackburn FRS, born November 26, 1948, in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially fired from the President's Council on Bioethics. Blackburn was appointed a member of the President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics in 2001. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration. Her Council terms were terminated by White House directive on February 27, 2004. This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. "There is a growing sense that scientific research -- which, after all, is defined by the quest for truth -- is being manipulated for political ends," wrote Blackburn. "There is evidence that such manipulation is being achieved through the stacking of the membership of advisory bodies and through the delay and misrepresentation of their reports." Blackburn serves on the Science Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute. - - - Thankfully, the D'oh Presidency is over. But Harry: "This was followed by expressions of outrage over her removal by many scientists, who maintained that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. " I just looked at that statement and it makes sense. Most bureaucrats and politicians get "fired" (voted out) "because of political opposition to their advice" What I find curious is that for a country WITH THE WORST HEALTHCARE IN THE WORLD, we sure seem to have an awful lot of Nobel Prize winners in medicine. D'oh. It's not the health care that's so bad, it's the inability and unwillingness to deliver quality health care that is killing us. Basically, in this country, if you are not cash rich or if you do not have good health insurance, and you get sick or seriously injured, you're ****ed, either because you won't be able to get the treatment you need or you won't be able to pay for it. -- Birther-Deather-Tenther-Teabagger: Idiots All |
Scientist fired by Bush Admin wins Nobel Prize
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