Scientists rebut the fundies

[central scrutinizer]

from:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/302/5647/966a

excerpt:

Sex Studies Denounced, NIH's Peer-Review Process Defended
Jocelyn Kaiser
A religious lobby's denunciation of nearly 200 studies of health and sexual behavior provoked a backlash from the biomedical community last week. After the Traditional Values Coalition shared a list of grants with Congress and called for a Justice Department investigation of them, biomedical leaders defended the sponsor, the National Institutes of Health. Meanwhile, NIH says that as soon as this week it is planning to give Congress an explanation of the scientific value of these kinds of studies.

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As news of the list hit the press, two scientific groups, among others, stepped up to defend NIH's peer-review process. "We can't let moralizing trump sound science when the public's health and safety are at stake," warned a statement issued by Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes Science. Jordan Cohen, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, also issued a statement, saying that "AAMC is deeply concerned" about the "extraordinary scrutiny" and "efforts to subject to ideological litmus tests."


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[DUreader]

1. , nice to see some follow-up on this issue