I hope you ignored, "I was told what I could and could not say," and did not hold back the facts. When I was asked by our local NPR radio station to participate in a panel discussion of human embryonic stem cells, which was (and still is) highly controversial, the PR folks at University of Kansas Medical Center gave me the same cautionar…
I hope you ignored, "I was told what I could and could not say," and did not hold back the facts. When I was asked by our local NPR radio station to participate in a panel discussion of human embryonic stem cells, which was (and still is) highly controversial, the PR folks at University of Kansas Medical Center gave me the same cautionary speech, lest my words endanger the state funding of the university. Kansas is a red state and is still very anti-embryonic stem cell research. I wanted to express my own expert viewpoint and the work around was for me to make a declaration on air that my views were my own and not necessarily those of the University of Kansas.
I hope you ignored, "I was told what I could and could not say," and did not hold back the facts. When I was asked by our local NPR radio station to participate in a panel discussion of human embryonic stem cells, which was (and still is) highly controversial, the PR folks at University of Kansas Medical Center gave me the same cautionary speech, lest my words endanger the state funding of the university. Kansas is a red state and is still very anti-embryonic stem cell research. I wanted to express my own expert viewpoint and the work around was for me to make a declaration on air that my views were my own and not necessarily those of the University of Kansas.