Category Archives: NIH

Thoughts On “The Nonpartisan Nerd Parade”

Posted on April 27, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

To use Buzzfeed’s phrase. Hughes (boldface mine): The programming could be called a lot of things. Inspiring, maybe. Nerdy. Wholesome. Boring. But it was not in any way controversial. And in that way it felt like a missed opportunity, bizarrely … Continue reading →

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We’re Not Having A Serious Discussion About Grant Overheads

Posted on April 11, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Something Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog wrote is very relevant to recent arguments about NIH (and by extension, other agencies’) grant overheads (boldface mine): Please note how the Times presents this debate — in effect, “White House, … Continue reading →

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A Primer On NIH’s Indirect Costs

Posted on April 5, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Based on interest in yesterday’s post about NIH overheads, here’s a talk put together by Sally Rocker, while she was still at NIH (because we believe policy discussions require knowing how things work):

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If You Want Federal Agencies To Work Together, They Should Be In The Same Place

Posted on April 5, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, Ross Douthat had an op-ed lamenting the rise of the well-to-do liberal city. We’ll leave aside a key cause of gentrification and pricing out the middle class (note that these aren’t the same thing), which is rising … Continue reading →

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Overheads: Nobody Is Leaving Money On The Table

Posted on April 4, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, after a surprise attempt by the Trump Administration to take back $1.2 billion of committed funds from NIH, HHS Secretary Tom Price responded: Price repeatedly suggested reducing the amount the NIH pays universities to cover “overhead” costs, like … Continue reading →

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More On Bogus NIH Budgets

Posted on March 23, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, we discussed Il Trumpe’s magic asterisk NIH budget, which supposedly will find a way to cut over $6 billion in spending through what is essentially pixie dust: What’s idiotic is that there’s no way ‘consolidations’ could possibly bring … Continue reading →

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NIH And Coal Mining

Posted on March 21, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Il Trumpe has made bringing back coal mining jobs, no matter how unrealistic that would be, a key component of his economic plan (such as it is…). After last week’s ‘budget’ release, which proposed an NIH funding cut of twenty … Continue reading →

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Trump Thinks The NIH Is “Terrible”

Posted on March 19, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

In light of Il Trumpe’s ‘budget’ that would cut NIH funding by twenty percent, it’s worth revisiting something he said in 2015 about the NIH (boldface added): A few days ago Donald Trump called into Michael Savage’s radio show. Savage … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Magic Asterisk NIH Budget

Posted on March 17, 2017 by mikethemadbiologist

Trump budget office hard at work If you haven’t heard by now, Trump’s ersatz budget proposal would cut NIH spending by $6.3 billion dollars, over twenty percent (the number bandied about, $5.8 billion is wrong due to a slight of … Continue reading →

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The Best Case Scenario For HHS?

Posted on November 15, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

For those who are not wise to the ways of Washington acronyms, DHHS (often referred to as HHS) stands for the Department of Human and Health Services. Two organizations that belong to HHS are the CDC and the NIH, so … Continue reading →

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