Prestigious MIT Professor Who Opposes Embryo Research Faces Ousting by University
Threatens Hunger Strike
By John Jalsevac

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, January 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – James L. Sherley, the controversial researcher and recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including a $2.5 million grant for “highly innovative research”, is threatening to go on a hunger strike after having lost his appeal to obtain tenure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor since 1998.

The move on the part of MIT to deny the researcher and professor tenure for good has ignited a heated dispute in which many of Sherley’s supporters are charging that the professor was denied tenure because of his stance on embryonic stem cell research.

Sherley is well known as a proponent of adult stem cell research, and as a staunch opponent of embryonic stem cell research. Earlier this year, in an interview with MercatorNet, Sherley stated that there is scant evidence that embryonic stem cells will ever be used to cure any diseases, and hypothesized that adult stem cells are the much more promising source of cures. the rest