Tomorrow at noon, tune into NPR's Science Friday, as you do every week anyway, I know, and you do not need to be told by me, but this time, make sure you hear Harold Varmus being interviewed about the implementation of the new NIH law and the editorial he wrote in PLoS Biology.
If I remember correctly, NPR Science Friday posts podcasts of the shows a few hours after they air live, so if you miss the show in real time you can come back to it and hear it later.
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...Is telling the truth. This answers the NPR ombudsman's question:
This is going to be uncharacteristically short, for me that is. I sometimes listen to NPR as I drive home from work, and I happened to be doing just that yesterday evening when I heard a story about the new Institute of Medicine report on vaccines and the vaccine schedule.
If you haven't heard, rightwing slime mongerer James O'Keefe struck again and managed to give National Public Radio (NPR) a black eye, although to a considerable extent,
From MoveOn:
House Republicans have declared an "emergency" today. Is it about unemployment? The situation in Libya? The disaster in Japan? Nope, it's about defunding NPR.