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Published online 1 July 2009 | Nature 460, 24 (2009) | doi:10.1038/460024a
Column: Party of One
Don't cry politicization
To call biomedical research proposals political distorts the issue, says David Goldston.
Last month, three of the leading proponents of biomedical research in the US Congress levelled an unlikely charge at President Barack Obama's proposal to focus health research on cancer and autism: they said the plan amounted to the 'politicization' of science. The first response to such a claim might be to marvel that any member of Congress could even pretend to take umbrage that a politician was involved in allocating money to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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