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Thursday 22 Jan 2009

The economic stimulus package is $500 billion, with $1 billion for science. It's outrageous. This is the future of our country. So now we're subsidizing the industries of the past at the expense of investments in the industries of the future. It's almost an insult, frankly.

-- Elias Zerhouni
Read the rest in Former chief of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Elias Zerhouni looks back on his time there, $700 billion buys a lot of Science and Stimulus package: fund academic research

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• Medical Doctor Elias Zerhouni on banks vs. boffins (nature.com)
• Bailing out the Banks
• Doctor Elias A. Zerhouni
• Jonathan Eisen Tree of Life blog 2008-09-27 $700 billion will buy a lot of taq, LB, submarines, and other things
• Russ Altman Building Confidence blog 2009-01-23
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008 · archived · cached
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Zerhouni · archived · cached
• Nature 2008-12-08 DOI:10.1038/news.2008.1301 Search for this DOI
• http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/09/700-billion-will-buy-lot- of-taq-lb.html · archived · cached
• http://rbaltman.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/stimulus-package-fund-acad emic-research/ · archived · cached

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