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Newsweek = Newspeak on Gene Patenting

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Newsweek has always been Avis to Time Magazine's Hertz -- evidenced by an increasing difference in subscriptions (3.3 million versus 1.97 million on 2009). So it isn't surprising that the magazine needs to do something to tweak its readership, even if that something is to distort its reporting on an important issue. Which is, of course, what Newsweek has done on its science news page in the February 15th issue, in an article cleverly entitled "Who Owns Your DNA?" The article, by "Science Editor" Susan Begley (at left), is of course not a science story...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 09, 2010 (boomark / email).