Science and politics are a poor match! I remember reading Jacques Testart's "The Transparent Egg" ~30 years ago. He was the head of the group of scientists developing the in-vitro (artificial insemination) method in France in the 1970s and 1980s and later wrote his book denouncing his own work and not least what it was being used for. He remembers the first time they managed to inseminate a cow artificially; something that finally aroused the interest of the authorities to the point that "...they even sent me a manager from up above - a very charming gentleman who I had to teach everything about my work so he could lead me, but the charm evaporated the first time he offered me advice!"
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