"Grant controversy escalates, with charges of misconduct and 'scientific McCarthyism' exchanged | By Ted Agres
"Within the next 2 weeks, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) hopes to convince Congress of the public health relevance of some 200 research project grants dealing with human sexual behavior and drug use. A conservative advocacy group assembled the list of grants, amounting to some $100 million, and complained that the projects were prurient, wasteful, and lacking in scientific merit. But at least one NIH defender contends that a Bush administration attempt to inject ideology into science is really behind the list."
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http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031103/06/Roughly 1300 words and, imo, very interesting!
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
--Thomas Jefferson
Most of what the Federal government does these days is sinful and tyrannical by that standard.
Bear in mind the political nature and history of all of our drug laws and the spooky research projects the CIA has been known to do. This could lead to some real upheaval! I wonder if Waxman even suspects what he's asking for.
A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
--Frank Zappa
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