An Explanation of Some of the Recent Scientific Research Announcements
The past couple of weeks have been a flurry of decisions involving government funding for research and health and wellness services. It’s been difficult to understand their impact without understanding the process in which science is evaluated for funding and policies around support of universities where the research takes place. In this podcast, we will clarify what environmental factors are associated with autism (not vaccines), summarize how grants are reviewed and what effect stopping them will have, and explain new rules around how much money research institutions receive in order to support that research, those “indirect costs” and what cutting them will mean for Research Institutions. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39891002 https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-068.html Click to access actinghhssecretarymemoaction2212025-1737591296147.pdf