Tommy Mattocks, Author at ASCB

Senator Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) recently released “wastebook” entitled Twenty Questions: Government Studies That Will Leave You Scratching Your Head, has…

The Shaming of Basic Research: Scientists Defend Themselves on Capitol Hill

May 3, 2016

Science and Society, Science Policy

For politicians, they were wastrels of public money. For talk show hosts, they were the subjects of can’t-miss jokes. They…

Round Two of House Fetal Tissue Hearings Opens with Partisan Fisticuffs

April 26, 2016

Science Policy

With a bang of the gavel, round two of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Investigatory Committee on Infant Lives…

Fetal Tissue Vital to Medical Research, ASCB Tells House Panel

April 4, 2016

Science and Society, Science Policy

Noted stem cell researcher and former chair of the ASCB Public Policy Committee Larry Goldstein told a politically charged congressional…

Fetal Tissue Vital to Medical Research, ASCB Tells Highly Polarized House Panel

March 3, 2016

Science Policy

Noted stem cell researcher and former chair of the ASCB Public Policy Committee Lawrence Goldstein told a politically charged Congressional…