* Blocks US Scientists from AIDS Conference

[Viking12]

BANGKOK—The absence of American researchers at the International AIDS Conference here this week has left many pondering why the decision was made to limit US attendance, and by whom.

"It came from above Tommy Thompson," said one US researcher who was told not to present her paper and had to find funding from other sources to attend. Although her work was cofunded by her university, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) component meant she was forbidden to present or talk to the media, she told The Scientist. "So I'm not going to give you my name."

US officials have cited cost factors in the decision to impose a limit of 50 scientists attending from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the CDC. Among the missing, for example, is Jonathan Kagan, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Division of AIDS—despite the fact that NIAIDS accounts for half the US spending on AIDS research.

Other top scientists from CDC and NIH have had to come without their coworkers, who were to present papers, compromising the scientific content of the meeting.



http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040713/04

[aquart]

1. George doesn't like science.

Did a science teacher have the effrontery to flunk him, once?

[doctorbombeigh]

2. Flunked? Of course he flunked, but the real problem...

is that before she flunked him, she confiscated his bag of weed.

[xchrom]

3. of course he did

that's how republicans play the game -- they are KILLERS.

[One_Life_To_Give]

4. Gag Order?

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) component meant she was forbidden to present or talk to the media, she told The Scientist. "So I'm not going to give you my name."


The real story here is not that she had to pay her own way. But that having done so she was not free to present her work.