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The House and Senate concurred on a compromise bill to revise the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) rules on biomedical research including a repeal of the ban on fetal tissue research. The bill's backers are confident they can override President Bush's promised veto; Bush opposes several provisions including the one on fetal tissue. The bill, called the 'NIH Revitalizing Amendments of 1992,' also contains provisions on ethics in research, scientific misconduct, conflict of interest and protection of whistleblowers.
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President Bush and the Democratic Congress, in trying to outdo one another in citing examples of wasteful federal spending on scientific research, showed their ignorance of the peer-review process and gave new life to the false idea that research is often ridiculous and beyond the grasp of everyday people. Both Congress and Bush should inquire seriously about the purpose of such projects and not take the politically easy but contemptible route of attacking research that appears senseless.
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President Bush's dispute with Congress over allegedly wasteful federal spending has resulted in the cancelling of funding for peer-reviewed research projects with silly-sounding names. The partisan budgetary dispute has eliminated funding for carefully evaluated scientific research simply because such titles as 'sexual mimicry of swallowtail butterflies' seemed foolish and unimportant to the politicians, who know little about the peer-review process.
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