{"id":37892,"date":"2020-05-14T08:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=37892"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:25:34","slug":"us-groups-protest-political-cuts-to-covid-19-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/37892","title":{"rendered":"US groups protest political cuts to COVID-19 research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"HTBsubhead3authorcredit\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-graphic.png\" width=\"231\" height=\"142\" \/><\/b>COVID-19 Working Group NYC<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">On May 1, 2020, Science Magazine reported the mid-term cancellation of a major grant to the EcoHealth Alliance, an international collaboration studying how coronaviruses transmitting in bats can evolve to spread in human populations. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Based on emails reviewed by Science, this decision appears to be directly related to the Trump administration\u2019s belief in the conspiracy theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of COVID-19, was purposefully or accidentally released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Wuhan Institute of Virology was a participant in the EcoHealth Alliance grant that was cancelled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Beyond the critical importance of the research the NIH defunded, political interference in grantmaking is a disturbing trend that would allow politicians to effectively squash research that does not align with their political desires. Industry influence in research, the silencing of climate science, and long term harm of American science in the global climate become increasingly likely if politicians can easily meddle in grantmaking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">We must stand united as a community of clinicians, scientists, activists, and citizens to demand the best \u2013 most transparent \u2013 scientific decision making process in this moment of crisis, and always.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For further information about related protests please see this link:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfR1jfnqi10a8pNqRAXx5fQzwdtbRDg8-ZtZ8IyeLHbYxo9kA\/viewform<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 Working Group NYC On May 1, 2020, Science Magazine reported the mid-term cancellation of a major grant to the EcoHealth Alliance, an international collaboration studying how coronaviruses transmitting in bats can evolve to spread in human populations. Based on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-other","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}