'Intimidation' Against AIDS Studies - "scientific McCarthyism"

[joefree1]

THE NATION
'Intimidation' Against AIDS Studies Claimed
* Federal health officials are using 'scientific McCarthyism,' Rep. Waxman says.

By Aaron Zitner, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — An apparent misunderstanding with Congress prompted the National Institutes of Health to put more than 150 researchers on notice in recent weeks that lawmakers were taking a skeptical look at their studies on AIDS, sexuality and high-risk behaviors.

The calls to researchers, in turn, provoked accusations Monday from Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) that federal health officials were using "intimidation" and "scientific McCarthyism" to frighten researchers whose work is opposed by conservatives.

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Committee spokesman Ken Johnson said the longer list had come from the Family Values Coalition, a conservative group, and added that he did not know who originally generated it.

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"I continue to want a definitive answer to where this list came from and want the Republicans to stop their witch hunt against researchers and research projects that don't meet ideological litmus tests," Waxman said in a statement issued Monday.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nih28oct28,1,3640391.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
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More sexual politics from the Borg-agains.Aids is no more a God's curse on Gays then Diabetes is Mother Nature's curse on Christians.

"It's not over 'till Arnold gropes the fat lady" —Bill Press, on MSNBC

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[xchrom]

1. i love waxman

he knows where that list came from. repukes are criminals -- with this just being one the high points in how far they will go to hurt people they don't like.

[Iverson]

2. on a related note

The latest issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about how corporate sponsors of grants try to discredit research that they fund if it doesn't have pleasing results.