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U.S.
Official Defends Use of Sex Studies
The New York Times, Jan. 30, 2004
Drazen, Jeffrey M., M.D., and Julie R. Ingelfinger, M.D. , Grants,
Politics, and the NIH
New England Journal of Medicine Volume 349:2259-2261 (23), December
4, 2003
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Editorial:
No Sex Research Please, We're American
The Scientist 17(23:6), Dec. 1, 2003
Don't
Let Ideology Trump Science
Science 2003 November 28; 302: 1479 (in Editorial) [may require
institutional access]
Censoring
research on AIDS
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 6, 2003
Editorial:
A sinister bid to scare science away from sex
Bob Herbert, The New York Times/The International Herald Tribune,
Nov. 4, 2003
Editorial:
The Big Chill at the Lab
The New York Times, Nov. 3, 2003
Sex,
drugs, and NIH: Grant controversy escalates, with charges of
misconduct and 'scientific McCarthyism' exchanged
The Scientist, Nov. 3, 2003
NIH
Roiled by Inquiries Over Grants Hit List
Science Magazine 302:5646 (31 Oct 2003)
Traditional
Values Coalition, HHS Secretary Respond To Waxman Letter on NIH Funding
for AIDS Research
Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, Oct. 30, 2003
Congressman
Defends Tax-Funded Study on Truck Stop Hookers
Cybercast News Service (conservativenews.org), Oct. 29, 2003
'Apparent
Mix-Up' Prompts NIH To Notify 150 AIDS, Sexuality Researchers That Congress
Questions Research Value
Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, Oct. 28, 2003
Hill
Hearing Airs NIH Needs, Congress' Concerns
The NIH Record LV(22), Oct. 28, 2003
Science,
policy, and partisan politics: Congressional report fuels debate
over science and decision making
The Scientist, Aug. 13, 2003
reports:
Inside
the National Institutes of Health and Examples
of interference
from Politics & Science: Investigating the Bush Administration's
Promotion of Ideology over Science
Politics
& Science in the Bush Administration (pdf)
Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman by the United States House of Representatives
Committee on Government Reform, MInority Staff Spcial Investigations Division,
August 2003
press releases and statements:
Statement
Regarding Research Freedom (MS Word)
Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research, Nov. 3,
2003
American
Academy for the Advancement of Science Denounces Coalition Efforts to Stop
Health Studies
American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Oct. 30, 2003
"NIH-funded
research should not be subject to extraordinary ideological scrutiny."
American Association of Medical Colleges Statement in Support of
the NIH Peer Review System, Oct. 29, 2003
Politically
Motivated Attack on NIH Peer-reviewed Research Continues...
and On
NIH-funded Research and the Peer-review Process, statement
by Sally T. Hillsman, Executive Officerof the American Sociological Association:
Oct.
29. 2003
Statement of the American Anthropological Association Commission on AIDS Research and Education at the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Interventions to Prevent HIV Risk Behaviors, January 24, 1997
other statements in support of peer-reviewed research at NIH by scientific organizations
from the horse's mouth:
the Traditional
Values Coalition website and their NIH
Grant Funding Breakdown by Issue
(note use of the NIH logo)
Defending
Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done
About It (pdf)
American Council of Trustees and Alumni (link
to website)
new publications
Structuring
NIH Today for the Research of Tomorrow
In Focus, The National Academies of Science, Fall 2003
Enhancing
the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health: Organizational Change
to Meet New Challenges
Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institutes of
Health, National Research Council