The boycott began with petitions drawn up by a British neurochemist, Steven Rose.
Steven Rose maintains that the history of eugenics makes this field of research difficult to reconcile with current ethical standards for science.
Someone get me Steven Rose.
Writing in 2006, Steven Rose described the immense challenge:
Competition, not openness and collaboration, has become the driving imperative among researchers, laments Steven Rose.
Steven Rose, the agency's executive vice president, will assume his responsibilities until a successor is named.
Steven Rose seems to have a rather different worry about neo-Darwinism.
The coming wave of memory drugs would not, according to Steven Rose, "recover the lost memories of one's past.
His political allegiances were called into question by other researchers, notably Steven Rose, who alleged that his scientific research was used for political purposes.
A neuroscientist and memory expert, Steven Rose, has been critical of this view.