House Votes to Kill Grants, Limit Travel to Meetings

摘要

For most scientists, having their research cited on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives would be a crowning achievement. But for University of Missouri, Columbia, psychologist Laura King, it was part of a "really scary, bizarre day" that culminated in a vote to block her work and that of a second psychologist. It came minutes after the House imposed a cap on international travel to scientific meetings. While fiscal conservatives are touting the events of 9 September as a victory against government waste, scientific organizations are fuming about what they see as an unwarranted intrusion into the scientific process.