A Positive Step From the Trump Administration

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Scientific American
Research scientists are upset because the Trump Administration wants to impose some accountability into the federal research grant system after millions died and the world economy lost trillions because of Dr. Fauci's Wuhan China lab created COVID and released it and after Dr. Fauci tortured thousands of beagles (that lab was closed last year)
Dr. Fauci's beagle experiments. Note the closed shades. To quote a WCW report:
The lab pumped pneumonia-causing bacteria into over 2,000 beagles' lungs, inducted
septic shock and bled them out. 

Was Dr. Fauci accountable? Yes, to another scientist. 
In my opinion, an ordinary politician would be far more likely to shout STOP! at this type of Josef Mengele-type barbarous, cruel behavior done with our tax dollars than the "go along to get along" world of science. 

Consider: we haven't been able to get a National Disaster Review Board because the National Weather Service used to claim its lame Service Assessments" (SA) did the job. Regarding the SA's, retired NWS meteorologist Roger Edwards recently wrote:

[Rep. Sorensen's bill to create a version of a NDRB) would be a positive step toward learning from weather disasters in a systematic, consistent and accountable way, not the overpoliticized, self-interested, wagon-circling shams that the “NWS Service Assessments” often became.

"Go along to get along." "Science policing itself." Get see the issue??

Perhaps there was a time when scientists could effectively police themselves but those days have long passed. I recommend that Congress work with the Administration to find ways to put effective, impartial oversight into the research grant process. 

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