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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you work for NIH and you follow along, then you are complicit. [/quote]

Stop it. NIH is the world's premier biomedical research institute. My husband worked there for many years. He has a PhD and an MD and worked on cancer, Alzheimer's, ADHD, and heart disease. It would be extremely hard to leave one's research to work elsewhere. The grants are tied to the lab, you can't just up and leave and take all your stuff with you. Research projects last for decades, especially if you first have to create a new line of model organism to study your hypothesis. You benefit from very expensive scientific equipment that is housed in one of the campus buildings, that you share with other labs. Your genetically engineered mice are housed onsite and fed and kept healthy by the animal services department. Or if you're working in clinical research with human patients in building 10, well, you can't go elsewhere either, right? The patients are here. The samples are here. The lab is here.

Scientific research in biology and medicine isn't an office job where you take your laptop and go.
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