Naughty government employee breaching his contractual obligations by indulging in the evil pursuit of unbridled capitalism. Off with his head or better still send him to Venezuela to spend six years under rampant socialist/fascist Chavez.

The guy should resign his obviously low paid salaried government job and apply to work in the private sector where his knowledge and expertise will be soaked up by the bio-tech industry, and where his remuneration package will be substantially improved.

What stands in the way of cures are not misdemeanours such as this incident, but unnecessary authoritarian regulatory control by governments which has stagnated real progress under the Bush policy of no research involving ESCR since 2001. Fortunately government controls are slowly but surely being eroded as the American people have voted overwhelmingly for ESCR to be inclusive in future government policy. No doubt helped by the efforts of Michael J Fox and a myriad of other pro embryonic stem cell research supporters.

The private sector will now have the shackles removed from their ankles once the new legislation is passed into law and progress should intensify in a competitive market economy.

GO HARD SCIENCE