{"id":308,"date":"2010-11-13T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2010-12-16T21:20:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T02:20:43","slug":"%e2%80%9cmedical-science%e2%80%9d-is-becoming-a-misnomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMedical science\u201d is becoming a misnomer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200e&#8221;\u2026research and development at nonmilitary agencies \u2014 including those that sponsor science and health research \u2014 would fall 12.3 percent, to $57.8 billion, from Mr. Obama\u2019s request of $65.9 billion for fiscal year 2011.&#8221; (NYTimes report of Republican platform promising reduction in science and health research.)\u00a0 But don\u2019t suppose that we will get nothing. Instead, we will get science for financial investors, brought to you by those who discovered Vioxx (recalled), Meridia (recalled). Propofol (recalled), Avandia (warning) etc. etc. See <a onmousedown=\"UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &quot;26a79&quot;, event);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drugrecalls.com\/propofol.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.drugrecalls.com\/propofol.html<\/a> and <a onmousedown=\"UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &quot;26a79&quot;, event);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Safety\/Recalls\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Safety\/Recalls\/default.htm<\/a> \u00a0So let\u2019s restrict\u00a0funding from going to the already underfunded FDA. Give people back their freedom to choose their own (heavily-advertised) poison. \u201cI demand my junk food and Fen-phen!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200e&#8221;\u2026research and development at nonmilitary agencies \u2014 including those that sponsor science and health research \u2014 would fall 12.3 percent, to $57.8 billion, from Mr. Obama\u2019s request of $65.9 billion for fiscal year 2011.&#8221; (NYTimes report of Republican platform promising reduction in science and health research.)\u00a0 But don\u2019t suppose that we will get nothing. Instead, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}