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Congressman Jim McGovern Slams Trump Administration Over NIH Funding Cuts As Critics Clash Online
Congressman Jim McGovern had a very impassioned moment in the House of Representatives, condemning the Trump administration for cuts to NIH...
There was a personal dichotomy of the speaker describing his family’s close relationship to medical research: The Massachusetts Democrat shared, late in life, his daughter was in an NIH clinical trial and died of cancer at 23. His emotional appeal to the public seeks to put faces on the human costs resulting from decisions related to research funding, although the commonly expressed online sentiment suggests how far we have drifted from reasoned policy debates in today’s deeply polarized world. The stark contradiction between the heartrending testimony of McGovern and the largely dismissive social media reactions indeed show the widening gulf between Washington policy discussions and the public discourse on science and health.
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