December 19, 2008
Congress Steers NIH Grants to Favored Colleges, Despite Merit-Based Reviews
Washington
The National Institutes of Health is renowned for its independent peer review of grant applications by disinterested scientists, but the biomedical-research agency is not immune from a subtle variant of Congressionally directed spending—commonly called "pork" or "earmarks"—according to a report published today. It says that members of Congress have helped steer millions of NIH dollars, or about 4 percent of awards to outside researchers, to institutions in their home states.
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