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APS Science Policy Update

August 4, 2005

In this issue:

• HHS Office of the Inspector General report on Conflict of Interest at NIH
• Evolution and Intelligent Dseign, President Bush speaks out
• FASEB issues new Breakthroughs in Bioscience Essay

Information: Conflict of Interest at NIH. An article in today's Los Angeles Times reports that an investigation by the HHS Office of the Inspector General found that many NIH employees' applications for outside consulting work were approved based on "limited" information. The report described in the article has not yet been made available to the public and is expected to be issued sometime today. Throughout the NIH conflict of interest controversy, the Los Angeles Times has published several articles critical of current policies. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/
la-na-nih5aug05,1,2188309.story

Information: Evolution and Intelligent Design. Earlier this week President Bush spoke to reporters about intelligent design and teaching evolution in the classroom. For comments in Science, including reaction from John Marburger, the President's science advisor, see: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol309/issue5736/s-scope.shtml#309/5736/861b

The APS has a brief statement on teaching and evolution available on our website, along with relevant resources at: http://www.the-aps.org/pa/action/news/evolution.htm

Information: FASEB Breakthroughs in Bioscience In conjunction with the Endocrine Society, the FASEB office of Science Policy has issued a new Breakthroughs in Bioscience Essay on Cholesterol Metabolism. These materials are intended to illustrate the dramatic benefits derived from biomedical research. Go to http://www.faseb.org/opa/break/ to see the most recent essay as well as previous issues.

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