Just thought this was an interesting article from the perspective of "selling science." It's got it all: institutions and experts throwing their authoritative weight around, political scare tactics, the use of the media to impact public opinion and sway policy, high financial stakes, invocations of the uber-narratives of progress and international competition and human rights, appeals to patriotism, threats to the physical health and well-being of Joe American Patient, etc. Interestingly, at the bottom of the article the source is listed as "Brokenpipeline.org," which sounds like an advocacy group formed by the institutions that put together this report, itself titled A Broken Pipeline: Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk.
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