Dr. Satan's robot.

Mad scientists and disastrous scientific accidents have long been popular material for the cinema, while science fiction novelists often pursue similar themes. How far do these fictions affect the public perception of science? And is the cumulative effect causing scientists' valuable research to be closed down, or persuading scientists to censor their own work for fear of losing grants? Arguing that some of the present controls on scientific research are preventing developments that would benefit mankind are Prof. Robert White (transplant surgeon), Prof. Lewis Wolpert (University College, London) and Prof. Roger Gosden (Prof. of Reproductive Medicine) whose use of aborted foetuses in fertility treatment was recently made illegal. They are opposed by Dame Jill Knight M.P., Jeremy Rifkin (author, Who Should Play God?) and novelist Michael Marshall Smith.