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cord-342790-70vn1nrm	Rosenthal, Philip J.	Keep Politics out of Funding Decisions for Medical Research and Public Health	2020-07-22		.txt	text/plain	1129	53	49	As leaders of the society, we are compelled to speak up for the integrity of science, and specifically for research funding and public health decisions based on merit, with policies rooted in data. The Department of Health and Human Services justified the cut with the claim that "the grantee was not in compliance with NIH's grant policy," but the director of the NIH Institute that funded the study later stated in congressional testimony that "it was canceled because the NIH was told to cancel it." Clearly, the actual reason for cancellation was political, apparently based on an attempt to assign blame for the COVID-19 pandemic to China, and consistent with claims that the pandemic was the result of a laboratory accident or a deliberate attempt to initiate a viral outbreak in Wuhan.	./cache/cord-342790-70vn1nrm.txt	./txt/cord-342790-70vn1nrm.txt