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Category: marijuana
Yesterday, the influential AMA (American Medical Association) announced that it would cease its opposition to the concept of medical marijuana and instead advocate for a change in federal classification of the drug. From the LA Times: The American Medical Assn....
Posted on: November 11, 2009 12:37 PM, by Nick Anthis • 18 Comments •
Category: Featured Blogger
Members of the Obama Administration have mentioned using science for diplomatic purposes on various occasions, most notably when President Barack Obama himself included this idea in his address at Cairo University in June. Today, SEEDMAGAZINE.COM published an article by Harvard's...
Posted on: September 17, 2009 8:30 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Obama Administration
Claims that science chief John Holdren advocates "extreme measures of population control" show a total disregard for the facts and even basic logic.
Posted on: July 16, 2009 6:23 PM, by Nick Anthis • 21 Comments •
Category: Obama Administration
Earlier today, President Barack Obama delivered a major speech on science policy to the National Academy of Sciences. Read more about it in my previous post. Now, though, Andy Revkin of Dot Earth is trying to annotate the speech with...
Posted on: April 27, 2009 11:28 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: Obama Administration
Obama pledged that under his leadership, the US will devote more than three percent of GDP to research and development, the largest commitment to science in US history.
Posted on: April 27, 2009 10:01 AM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: stem cells
About a week ago, the NIH announced its draft guidelines covering the funding of human embryonic stem cell research. You can read the draft guidelines here and my post on the topic here. As these are draft guidelines, they are...
Posted on: April 25, 2009 10:10 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: law
Contemplating the mindset that led to the CIA torture memos reminds me of an encounter I had at the Pentagon in September 2005.
Posted on: April 19, 2009 10:04 AM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: stem cells
The new guidelines are much more reasonable than those of the Bush Administration, but are still overly restrictive.
Posted on: April 17, 2009 2:15 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: health policy
You see, this is why you want to fill your administration with smart, qualified, thoughtful, and innovative people--especially in the sciences. From The Times A major investment in fighting tropical infections and chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes in...
Posted on: April 2, 2009 2:02 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: stem cells
Today was a great day for science in the Executive Branch. Firstly, President Barack Obama (finally!) lifted George W. Bush's August 2001 restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research in an executive order entitled "Removing Barriers to...
Posted on: March 9, 2009 6:06 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: Obama Administration
A humorously well-timed shot of Bush drives the point home.
Posted on: January 20, 2009 4:45 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
