{"id":254,"date":"2006-11-11T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/11\/11\/sex-drugs-and-dna-sciences-taboos-confronted\/"},"modified":"2006-11-12T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T12:12:38","slug":"sex-drugs-and-dna-sciences-taboos-confronted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/sex-drugs-and-dna-sciences-taboos-confronted\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, drugs and DNA: Science&#8217;s Taboos Confronted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highly recommended by a friend, I have ordered &#8220;Sex, drugs and DNA&#8221; by Michael Stebbins. Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1403993424\/002-7813542-5300805?v=glance&#038;n=283155&#038;n=507846&#038;s=books&#038;v=glance\">Publishers Weekly<\/a> finds<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStebbins has set out to write a polemical overview of the most controversial topics in modern science and, to a large extent, he succeeds. Stebbins, the Director of Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists, writes in a brash style more often associated with political diatribes than serious science [&#8230;] As he points out, &#8220;the devil is in the detail&#8221; regarding this particular issue, and neither the public, the media, nor the politicians seem to have a firm grasp of the details.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Popular Science UK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularscience.co.uk\/nearbest.htm\">www.popularscience.co.uk writes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153FOUR STARS: If you enjoy reading Michael Moore, you will want to read this book too. Without doubt, a book that anyone who really wants science to succeed should read.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just found another article of Michael Stebbins at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2006\/10\/some_lessons_learned_from_the.php\">SEED<\/a>  and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sexdrugsanddna.com\/Cartoons.html\">supporting website<\/a> including a blog and cartoons by Dr. Sean Taverna. To be continued, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly recommended by a friend, I have ordered &#8220;Sex, drugs and DNA&#8221; by Michael Stebbins. Also Publishers Weekly finds &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[40,2946,112,129],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-fun-nothing-else","tag-philosophy-of-science","tag-reproductive-technologies","tag-stem-cell-controversy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}