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Originally Posted by Undertoad
The system you criticize is the same system that produces those results.
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No, I criticize their handling of this specific case. It is rare to find a topic where the funding is so imbalanced (70% of funding available for studying genetic causes of autism, only 30% available for those who want to study environmental triggers) or where additional study is not encouraged. How many other health issues are told, "We don't need any more studies." Scientists should always want to do more studies. How many hundreds of cancer studies get funded each year? Yet we're supposed to be satisfied with a little over a dozen in the last decade, half of which were just large-scale medical record examinations done in other countries?
09-02-2009, 01:51 PM
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