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I have been waiting to get permission to post this, but I have not heard back. I really wanted to get your take on this, so I am going to take my chances. What do you think of the NIH's response?
Here is the letter, converted from PDF to text
April 6, 2011
Dear ,
Enclosed is a copy of the response I recently received from Ann Brewer, an Executive Secretariat Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), regarding your concerns about members on the Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel. I hope you find this information useful. If you have any additional questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.
PS Senator Barrasso is pretty awesome.
Here is the letter, converted from PDF to text
April 6, 2011
Dear ,
Enclosed is a copy of the response I recently received from Ann Brewer, an Executive Secretariat Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), regarding your concerns about members on the Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel. I hope you find this information useful. If you have any additional questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
BEthesda, Maryland 20892
The Honorable John Barrasso, M.D.
United States Senate
Washington,DC 20510
Dear Senator Barrasso:
Thank you for your February 25, 2011, letter to Francis White regarding members appointed to the Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel. Dr. Collins, Director, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has also received over 100 complaints regarding Dr. Myra McClure's appointment to this board and we are not responding to these complaints for a number of reasons.
--Dr. McClure has resigned from the review panel due to threats to her life and home
(the FBI and Interpol have been called in to investigate).
--This particular e-mail contains the same wording as other emails that Dr. Collins has
received that the NIH is considering campaign mail; in keeping with NIH careful
consideration and practice, the NIH does not respond to such mail.
--A group of chronic fatigue syndndrome(CFS) activists have objected to many of the
appointees to this committee solely because of their beliefs about what may cause
CFS. This has impeded the NIH's ability to recruit qualified virologists to serve on
this review committee, because of threats made against Dr. McClure.
--The NIH appoints non-US citizens to review boards because the NIH not only
provides research dollars to US scientists, but also provides research dollars to foreign
scientists.
We apprecciate your concern over this matter, but also hope that you understand our position. The NIH thanks you for your continued support and commitment to improving the health of all Americans.
Sincerely yours,
Ann E. Brewer, R.N.
Director, Executive Secretariat Reply to Private Message Forward .
PS Senator Barrasso is pretty awesome.