WAITING WOMB: Congressman Michael Burgess (R-TX) made headlines recently for suggesting that fetuses, like this one at 15 weeks of development, masturbate in utero.© DR. NAJEEB LAYYOUS/SCIENCE SOURCE
—Representative Michael Burgess (R-TX), a former OB/GYN, during a House Rules Committee hearing, in support of a GOP bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks (June 17)
—Jeanne Conry, president of the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists, in response to Burgess’s comment
(US News and World Report, June 18)
—Physicist Sean Carroll, in a post on his blog,
www.preposterousuniverse.com (March 18)
—Bioinformatician John Boyle, in a Nature column about the need
for a functional system to analyze big-data that can be used
and shared by all biologists (July 3)
—Justice Clarence Thomas, writing the US Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to strike down patents held on genes, based on a case brought against Myriad Genetics, which used a patent on the BRCA genes to ...
