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Richard Shelby: “When the NIH requests $30 billion or more in taxpayer dollars for biomedical research, which I think is not enough…”

On the recordMarch 27, 2012
When the NIH requests $30 billion or more in taxpayer dollars for biomedical research, which I think is not enough, shouldn't reproducibility, replication of these studies, be a part of the foundation by which the research is judged?
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby emphasizes the importance of reproducibility in NIH-funded research.

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