stimulus package
palmd | February 16, 2009The New York Times is reporting that the economic stimulus bill will include over a billion dollars to fund research into medical evidence. This is a good thing, but it's bound to be controversial. I've mentioned before that we need to spend money to improve our medical infrastructure, and this could be a step in the right direction.
Much of what we do in medicine is science-based, and much of it has evidence to support it, but some does not. There are plenty of open questions about how we practice medicine, and in order to deliver safe, quality care, we need answers. For example, a…
gregladen | February 6, 2009UPDATE HERE
I just received this note from Sean Otto of ScienceDebate 2008:
I am writing to alert you to efforts underway this morning to zero out a large portion of the science funding from the Senate American Reinvestment and Recovery Act as a part of a $77.9B reduction effort led by Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (R-ME).
As you know better than most, science and technology are responsible for half of the economic development of the United States since WWII and yet, if current trends hold, some, such as the Business Roundtable, have predicted that 90% of all scientists and…
apalazzo | January 29, 2009From the AAAS:
The three agencies highlighted in the America COMPETES Act of 2007 and President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) would do extremely well in the stimulus appropriations bill. The National Science Foundation (NSF) would receive $3.0 billion; the Department of Energy's Office of Science (DOE OS) would receive $2.0 billion; and Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) would receive $520 million; nearly all of these supplementals are for R&D activities. The $5.5 billion allocated to these three agencies would finally put all three budgets…