How to Get Fewer Scientists

President Bush told cancer researchers gathered at the National Institutes of Health in January that we need to "make sure that our scientists are given the tools and encourage young kids to become scientists in the first place." Yet his administration's stingy NIH budgets over the past five years and its threat last week to veto the appropriations bill giving the NIH a small funding boost sound more like components of a Discourage Future Scientists Act. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

What hope do future scientists have from an administration which replaces science with "creationism" (pardon, "intelligent design")? How many NIH proposals could have been funded by the monies squandered in Iraq?

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