06 novembro 2003

CONTAMINANTES

Um caso a seguir: Nobel Laureates declare support for Butler: Four American Nobel Laureates have come out in support of Thomas Butler, the Texas Tech University professor whose trial for an assortment of charges involving his handling of plague samples began this week in Lubbock, Texas. [...]
"I think the four of us all feel just adamantly that this is turning out to be a gross miscarriage of justice," Peter Agre, a Johns Hopkins University professor who won half of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, told The Scientist. "This is outrageous," he said. "It smacks of McCarthyism."