AAAS Leadership Again Decries Intimidation of Scientists Who Use Animals in Research

In response to an attack by animal rights extremists who reportedly placed an incendiary device against the front door of a California researcher who uses animals in her research, AAAS reaffirmed a 29 November 2007 statement by its Board of Directors, decrying such tactics.For the second time in four months, the home of Edythe London, a professor of psychiatry and bio-behavioral science and of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), apparently was targeted by animal rights extremists. The AAAS Board of Directors has noted that "the use of animals in research continues to make critical contributions to understanding basic life processes and to the treatment of human disease." Board members said they recognize and support the right of all citizens to protest and dissent from policies with which they disagree. But, they added that unlawful and dangerous actions should not be tolerated.

By AAAS, USA.

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Education, Industry Leaders See Legal Threats to Diversity in Higher Ed S&T Programs

Recent U.S. court decisions limiting efforts to recruit underrepresented minority students pose a profound challenge for colleges, universities and science-related industries, educators and business leaders said at a recent forum co-sponsored by AAAS. Still, they said, many effective programs are in place, and others could be put in place, that meet the legal standard of strict scrutiny and result in more diversified student bodies.

By AAAS, USA.

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Researchers Say Climate Change Could Produce Water Crisis in Western U.S.

Researchers in a new Science article published online warn that human-caused climate change has dramatically altered the water flow over the past 50 years in several Western states.

By AAAS, USA.

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Author Caroline Wagner Urges More Inclusive Global Science Cooperation

International scientific cooperation in the 21st century is growing at a spectacular rate, but because the structure emerges from the decisions of scientists to collaborate, it is largely invisible to the outside observer. Scientists in developing countries are often frustrated in their efforts to participate, and policymakers from those countries have difficulty working with a system that is quite different from that of just a few decades ago, scholar and author Caroline S. Wagner said at a AAAS seminar. .

By AAAS, USA.

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