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U.S. proposal to put political appointees in charge of science funding draws warnings of repeating Soviet-era mistakes

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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Tina Hesman Saey15h ago12 min readenInsight

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