Elena CattaneoItalian researcher Elena Cattaneo has written previously on this site about the lack of transparent, contestable funding for science in Italy.  A new book by Armando Massarenti, Staminalia: Le Cellule Etiche e i Nemici Della Ricerca (Staminalia: Ethical Cells and the Enemies Of Research), picks up on this issue - describing the political and ethical disputes surrounding stem cell research in Italy, and the way science has sometimes been misrepresented.  Cattaneo, reviewing this book in Nature, writes:

If you're interested in exploring some of the ethical issues surrounding stem cellⁱ research, our 19-minute film, Conversations: ethics, science, stem cells, is a good place to start.  The film, featuring the different points of view of doctors, scientists, ethicists, theologians and a patient, aims to encourage open debate about the ethical issues around stem cell research. It is structured in chapters, each addressing a key ethical question.