For more than a decade, stem cell research has been the topic of oftenpolarized debates about the nature and scope of scientific freedom (Caulfield, 2004; Downie et al, 2005; Foley, 2000; Hsu, 1999; Keane, 2006; Taylor, 2003). Some have suggested that attempts to regulate the field have yielded an unprecedented degree of political interference in the arena of scientific inquiry (Cattaneo & Corb...