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Policy Alert Discussion Space
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A New York Times article on the plan by the National Institutes of Health to create a new National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) characterized...
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On January 19 the Supreme Court , in a unanimous decision (with Justice Kagan recusing herself), reversed a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
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The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) posted a letter from the State Department to AAUP, in which the Department notes that it does...
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On January 5 the British Medical Journal charged Andrew Wakefield with faking the data used in his research which purported to show a link between vaccines...
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As the 111 th Congress drew to a close, the Senate passed a reauthorization of the Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer...
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Last Friday, more than 21 months after President Obama requested them, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released government-wide guidelines...
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On December 7, the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Scientific Management Review Board ( SMRB ) recommended that NIH realign existing programs...
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In an online video employing contemporary technology to follow in the footsteps of the late Senator William Proxmire's (D-WI) famous "golden fleece"...
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President Obama has formally requested that his Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues undertake a “thorough fact-finding investigation...
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NIH Director Francis Collins released a statement last week saying that the creation of a new institute focusing on addictions, as recommended by NIH’s...
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On November 12, a Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) advisory committee recommended high school biology textbooks that...
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National Institutes of Health researchers are largely unhappy with the conflict-of-interest rules that resulted from a 2005 crackdown, according to a survey...
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The Government Accountability Office issued a report that calls for an entity such as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has ruled that “only the school board has ultimate responsibility for what goes on in the classroom...
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The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication released a new report titled Americans’ Knowledge of Climate Change , which found that 63% of Americans...
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