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Zinder has reason for worry. But he and other scientists should find reassurance in the experience of Cambridge. There, citizens patiently ignored political demagoguery, perceived the false notes in the voices of doom, mastered the complex issues and then cast their votes for the continuation—with reasonable restraints—of free scientific inquiry. Congress should do no less.
* Named for its discoverer, the German pediatrician Theodor Escherich, who isolated it from feces in 1885, and for its habitat, the colon.