Return to Article: HHS monitors scientists' meetings with international groups
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What is terrifying about William Steiger is that he is so very young, and has no idea how little he knows about science, medicine, or public health.
At the same time, I think that Steiger, Hrynkow, and possibly even Elias Zerhouni, Dir NIH, are all being setup by others to take the fall, and are in turn fighting back to set others up for a fall.
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Fear is the current administration's mantra. A curtailing of rights leads to a loss of rights. Strike down the 1st amendment, adopt a policy of censorship, which equates to a communist/fascist philosophy, which in turn equates to the ideology of the current administration.
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Don't these HHS policy makers have anything better to do with their time? They're also, once again, causing a lot more work for the scientists and the administrative staff to comply with this ridiculous requirement. This is the latest example of HHS bureaucrats making our work more complicated and cumbersome. How can we attract and retain great scientists and doctors to NIH when we have so many layers of red tape to wade through? I can understand asking for an after-the-fact (short) report of some kind, but a Notification of Foreign Travel is beyond belief.
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On and on it goes- one security tightening after another. Now a scientist can't go to a meeting in the united States of his peers working at World organizations without permission by security.
I have a great idea. Why don't we just throw all these foreign organizations out of the United States- tell the UN to leave New York, close down our borders completely to all foreign visitors and disappear into a cocoon for twenty or thirty years.
Oh no, why did I recommend that- perhaps that was idea #99 from the 9/11 Commission to be blindly implemented by the White House for political reasons.
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I think this quote says all that needs to be said about this radical, ideological administration, and people like William Steiger.
///// "Gerald Keusch, who resigned as director of the Fogarty International Center in December, questioned Steiger's qualifications to determine which scientists should attend meetings. Steiger holds a doctorate in Latin American history. "Political appointees who are not scientists should not be judging what science needs to be done or who advises the science agencies," Keusch said. "The department seems to be either confusing policy and science or deliberately making science conform to policy." //////
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