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Sign this [new] petition for The White House to increase the NIH budget for 2013
[UPDATE (April 2, 2012): We now need 9,333 more signatures to hit 25,000 by April 17. If you have not yet signed the petition, please do so, and ask your friends and co-workers to log into the site and sign.]
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A new petition has been initiated (the first one failed by just 88 signatures!), and needs 25,000 signatures by April 17, 2012. As of this date (March 25), it is more than halfway there at 12,574.
The NEW petition can be found here: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/#!/petition/increase-nih-funding-33-billion-proposed-flat-307-billion-dollars-will-hurt-econmy-and-medical/FNr0kRbj
The original petition needed 25,000 signatures by March 18th. It fell short by just 88 signatures!
The new announcement is below. The original petition announcement, with arguments for its support, is below that. ~ Mike
Support Improved Human Health AND Boosting Our Economy! Sign this petition to support increased funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Update, March 25, 2012: The petition announced below has expired. Outdated links have been removed. Please see the post for the new petition at http://wp.me/p12dO4-1eX
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There’s a lot of interesting and important science waiting to be done in this country. Doing it, however, is becoming financially impossible.
Government support for research which has no immediate payoff is essential, or basic research often doesn’t get done. Yet over a decade or more, federal funding of research in ‘real’ dollars has been almost continually ‘flat’ or cut. Continue reading

