Stem cells, politics, "fairness," and what one participant termed "the disintegration of traditional journalism," were all on the bill at Thursday night’s (Oct. 18) public forum titled "Stem Cells and the Media," hosted by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
A panel of four science journalists who have extensively covered the stem cell "story" gathered in the Radcliffe Gym to discuss and debate the challenges and complexities of stem cell research coverage by the mainstream media.
"This is the most political issue in science," said William Saletan, a national correspondent for Slate magazine.
