The Politics of Time
October 30, 2003
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Time to show those evil spuds what's what

NIH questions researchers on AIDS grants:

A government document naming 157 scientists who study AIDS and human sexuality is alarming university researchers, who call it a Republican "hit list'' that may be used to target prevention programs that some members of Congress find offensive.

National Institutes of Health program officers, who are responsible for overseeing research funded by the federal agency, have been asking members on the list for thumbnail descriptions about the "public benefit" of their projects, which in most cases have already been approved and funded, according to several scientists familiar with the list.

It's nice to know that our representatives are so friendly with the good folks at the Traditional Values Coalition. Because it's important that the NIH, which only has a rigorous peer-review system, be double-checked by an organization whose website seems to have emptied Getty Images of every last stock photo of a baby wrapped in an American flag.

I personally would like to found an organization called The American Values Coalition for American Family Values and make the splash page on the website like and eagle with a baby with an American flag cape on its back and then when you click through to the index page I want it to be a site totally devoted to felching and shit pigs.

Posted by Dana at 11:23 AM

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I have incredibly mixed emotions about a lotta social issues. Sometimes I'll find myself disgusted with the left (political & cultural), but then I'll see something like what I saw when I googled the Traditional Values Coalition and realize that I don't wanna be them either, or at the very least I can't force my personal moral feelings on the world (at any cost), which seems to be what they are about.

Posted by: jonmc at October 30, 2003 11:52 AM

AIDS is not a social issue. AIDS is a global health issue. I'd like to see how these douchebags would respond to the goverment curtailing research on heart disease. Because, you know, we all know how to prevent heart disease, just don't engage in risky behaviors like smoking and eating fatty foods.

Posted by: dana at October 30, 2003 12:18 PM

I agree. I wasn't implying that AIDS was a social issue. I was speaking more generally in regards to stuff like promiscuity and whatnot.

I believe that any information that can save lives is good (which is what I meant by my "any cost" comment).

Posted by: jonmc at October 30, 2003 12:23 PM