The former head of the National Institutes of Health explains it nicely and concisely.
His comment appears in a long article (subscription) about UD‘s acquaintance, Paul Thacker, described as Charles Grassley’s “bulldog” in the fight against the dangerous corruption of academic science.
“Paul’s good,” said the senator, sitting across from Thacker. “If you’re going to be successful in these investigations, you gotta have people like Paul.”
The article notes that scientists grown accustomed, as Zerhouni says, to lying about the money they stand to make from their own research results don’t like Paul Thacker one bit. Too bad.
September 16th, 2009 at 6:54PM
I think you mean former head. Current head is Francis Collins.
September 16th, 2009 at 7:22PM
Thanks, Marilyn. Right you are. I’ll fix it.