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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Martha Rosler
4.7
by Martha Rosler - Oct. 1, 2008

Describes a devastating crippling of our ability to fund and foster good research. It seems to be another move from the radical Republicans' ideological playbook to destroy governmental institutions in favor of private corporations at best— or nothing, at worst. Science is useful only when it produces product opportunities, anyway, they seem to feel, yet the article shows the need for government seed money and robust programs, a fact well known round the world.

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