March 12, 2004

Bush Cuts 2 Dissenters From Federal Bioethics Advisory Council

By JEFFREY BRAINARD and SCOTT SMALLWOOD

President Bush removed two dissenting members of his bioethics advisory council in February, renewing criticism that he is playing politics with scientific policy. But the council's chairman dismisses those charges as "rubbish."

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a biologist at the University of California at San Francisco, and William F. May, a medical ethicist and retired professor at Southern Methodist University, were not reappointed to the President's Council on Bioethics. The council

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