Word: researching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...serious economic assessment of health-sciences research will demonstrate that it has been remarkably cost effective. For example, the funds that were expended to develop the polio vaccine 30 years ago were quite small compared to the value derived from the virtual eradication of poliomyelitis. It has been calculated that if polio had not been prevented, the cost to the country in 1990 of caring for the millions of people with polio would exceed all the funds that have been spent by the NIH in the past 30 years. In 1955 essentially all children who developed acute leukemia died quickly...
...that the average working scientist has a broad societal perspective about his or her work. People go into science because they are inquisitive and because they believe that knowing more about our world will improve it. Our country has benefited enormously from the support of much unfocused basic research because in totally unexpected ways it has provided insights into medical problems that have been of enormous significance...
...Everyone would agree that it's in the country's interest to spend money on unfocused research, but given that we are in an era of limits, priorities are going to have to be set. What are your priorities...
...first priority is to create an environment in which talented young people choose careers in health-sciences research, because without them our future will be blighted. My second priority would be to fashion a system in which talented, more senior researchers could obtain stable funding for their best work. Those two priorities cannot be achieved without setting some limits and making difficult choices...
...impossible to increase significantly the federal budget for health-sciences research in the near future, then I would favor reducing funding for the human genome initiative and even for AIDS. I stand with the priorities I outlined, and I realize that means we can't have business as usual...