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L. A. Daily News, An internationally lauded USC medical professor known as the “father of gene therapy” was being held Friday on $6 million bail after being charged with sexually molesting a young girl, authorities said. Dr. William French Anderson, 67, director of the Gene Therapy Laboratory at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, was arrested at 8:40 a.m. Friday at his San Marino home. The school immediately placed him on administrative leave. Anderson, known as “French,” was charged with one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child and five counts of a lewd act upon a child. |
This accusation may, of course, have roots in political or religious fanaticism, even though gene therapy is less controversial than other aspects of genetic engineering. For reasons why some feel strongly about this area of research, see the remarks of Francis Crick in a Thursday Log24 entry.