Most Americans don’t read the rules that govern the federal grants funding science. Those rules, called the Uniform Guidance, shape how cancer research is funded, graduate students are trained, clinical trials are sustained, universities stock their labs and discoveries from those labs move into broader society.

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Committee
Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health

Hearing Title
Maintaining America’s Leadership in Biomedical Innovation: FDA’s Role in Advancing U.S. Drug Development

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In a world where trust in institutions is mostly in decline, levels of trust in science remain relatively high. Yet at the same time, belief in scientific conspiracy theories, such as hushed-up effects of vaccines or airplane “chemtrails”, is also widespread.

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