The issue focused on the low public health value of medical research, and how far science can be forced to go in its quest for scientific truth.

"It is good that researchers are free to study what they want to study," said Science magazine's editor-in-chief David Shear. "But when science gets into the business of demonizing ideas and putting them down as dangerous to our well-being, it should not be taken too seriously."

In a statement, Scott Weingartner