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"Politics and Regulation",
"Public Health",
"blood transfusiona",
"Donald Trump",
"Gold Standard Science",
"grant",
"Lysenkoism",
"Lysenkoism 2.0",
"National Institutes of Health",
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"textContent": "From the beginning, Trump science policy has been Lysenko 2.0, in which ideology, not scientific promise and rigor, dictates federal grantmaking. OMB Director Russell Vought's proposed rules de-emphasizing peer review and placing political appointees in charge of final grantmaking decisions do Lysenko proud.\n\nThe post The Lysenko-ization of federal science takes a big step forward first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.",
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