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"When we looked at the public-health relevance, there was no question that these projects should have been funded and should continue to be funded." NIH Director Elias Zerhouni The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/13/04 ****** "I strongly urge the Members to resist the temptation to select a few grants for defunding because they do not like the sound of them based on one paragraph out of what probably was a number of pages of information. It would set a dangerous precedent and put a chill on medical research if we start to micromanage individual NIH grants. This has worked well over the years. We have had enormous progress because of these grants in achieving medical knowledge and giving the public a better health care system. I do not think this body, this committee, wants to get into the process of reviewing 120,000 grants and trying to pick 40,000 out of that group for funding." Rep. Ralph Regula -- Chairman, House Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, fHouse floor July 11, 2003 ****** I have served on the subcommittee that deals with NIH for a long time, and the one thing I came to understand very quickly is that the day that we politicize NIH research, the day we decide which grants are going to be approved on the basis of a 10-minute horseback debate in the House of Representatives with 434 of the 435 Members in this place who do not even know what the grant is, that is the day we will ruin science research in this country. We have no business making political judgments about those kinds of issues. Rep. David Obey -- Ranking Member, House Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, House floor July 11, 2003 ****** "When you look at the impact of sexually transmitted disease, you're talking about HIV/AIDS and many others that affect millions of people and their reproductive lives." NIH Director Elias Zerhouni USA Today, Jan. 13, 2004
****** "Decisions about medical research should be made by scientists, not by politicians promoting an ideological agenda.” Democratic House Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, July 2003
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"Here we have people saying, 'I don't like how that disease was contracted, so I don't want to study that disease.' It's equivalent to sticking your head in the sand. It's very important that the scientific community rises up and objects to the imposition of ideology in these areas."
Alan Leshner, President and CEO, AAAS, Washington Post, 1/19/04
CPR sponsors Congressional briefing -- Lost in Translation: Public Health Implications of Sexual Health Research The Scientific, Public Health, and Advocacy Community Reacts NIH Responds to Congress (Download letter to Congress) CPR Sends Letter of Support to Dr. Zerhouni Dr. Zerhouni Sex-Related Research at NIH Addresses Critical Public Health Issues 2002 Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior Become a Member of CPR - download membership form (pdf) ******
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For more information about the Coalition contact:
Angela Sharpe (COSSA) at (202) 842-3525
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Karen Studwell (APA) at (202) 336-5585 |
Background. . . Science and Politics: The Uneasy Relationship, Open Spaces: Views from the Northwest Forbidden Science -- Discover Magazine Political Science -- Johns Hopkins Magazine A Political Attack on Peer Review -Nature Neuroscience Transcript of the Floor Debate on the 2005 Neugebauer Amendment to L-HHS Appropriations Bill
Vote "NO" on Neugebauer (6/05)
"Dear Colleague" -- Protect the National Institutes of Health - Oppose the NEUGEBAUER Amendment (6/05) CPR Congressional Briefing -- Six Degrees of Separation: Using Social Network Research to Inform Public Health and National Security (Executive Summary)Neugebauer Amendment Not Part of Omnibus Bill House Approves Symbolic Attack on NIH Grants
The Scientific, Public Health, and Advocacy Community Reacts . . . Statements of Support from the Scientific Community
2001 Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior
House Approves Symbolic Attack on NIH Grants
Transcript of the Floor Debate of the Amendment Offered by Mr. Neugebauer
CPR sends letter of support to Dr. Zerhouni
NIH Responds to Congress (Download letter to Congress) Zerhouni Defends the National Institutes of Health's Support Sexual Health Research NIH Director Upholds Scientific Merit of Controversial Sexuality Grants Rep. Henry Waxman's 11/13 letter to Sec'y Thompson
Rep. Waxman’s Politics and Science website
Rep. Tom Lantos 10/30 letter to Sec'y Thompson
Rep. Henry Waxman's 10/28 letter to Sec'y Thompson
Rep. Henry Waxman's 10/27 letter to Sec'y Thompson Sexual Health Grants Targeted By Conservative Group Waxman Expresses "Outrage" Over 'Hit List;' The Scientific Community Reacts
Sexual Health Research Once Again an Issue; Rogers, Waxman Defend NIH Research See how your Representative voted Transcript of House Floor Debate on the Amendment offered by Rep. Toomey Grants Targeted by House Amendment Sexual Behavior Research at NIH Threatened NIH Peer Review Threatened: House Barely Defeats Attempts to Stop NIH Grants
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