[BeAllYouCanBe]

Free Money for whacky libs -- HEY BUT THIS IS MY MONEY!!

[Aracelis]

Ping for possible implications to the rest of scientific research.

[bert]

I didn't see the part about the qurantine.

Isn't there an ammendment to fund Homosexual Qurantine camps. Many think qurantine is the best way to curtail the spread of AIDS in the USA.

[Ken522]

Gregory Herek, a psychology professor at UC Davis and respected researcher on hate crimes against gays and lesbians, said he would have been disappointed if his name were not on the list because it would imply he's "not making an impact."

This jerk shouldn't be getting a grant. Heck, he already has a job - what's he need a grant for?

[thoughtomator]

"This creates a possible precedent in the arena of science that is very disturbing," said Cynthia Gomez, co-director of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UC San Francisco.

Yes, but we knew accountability disturbs frauds.

[Brian Mosely]

Gregory Herek, a psychology professor at UC Davis and respected researcher on hate crimes against gays and lesbians, said he would have been disappointed if his name were not on the list because it would imply he's "not making an impact."

I can just imagine his reaction if he didn't make the list. "What? You mean after all that hard work, I still can't piss off the right wing? What am I doing wrong?"

[Lancey Howard]

NIH spokesman John Burklow. "We're responding to a request from Congress. The NIH is not questioning the validity of the research."

Why not, Burklow?

[semiarticulate]

AIDS research?

Anyone with a pulse has known how to avoid contracting AIDS since about 1983. Maybe it's time to move on to new "challenges"

[King Prout]

The implication that university researchers must defend their work to a religious group is troubling to some members of Congress.
"I am disturbed that this list would be used to bring pressure against respected researchers working to improve and protect health care," wrote Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, in a letter sent Thursday to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who oversees the NIH. "The days of blind judgmentalism in connection with HIV/AIDS should be long gone."

s'cuze me, Dim, but automatically assuming valid any and all so-called research connected with HIV/AIDS is in itself a form of blind judgementalism. I'd like to know why so much taxpayers' money is being spent studying a completely avoidable disease, in great excess -last I checked- of those funds spent studying various random-cause cancers which kill far more Americans every year than does AIDS.