THIS is getting ridiculous. President Bush is proposing a nearly 16 per cent
increase in the budget of the National Institutes of Health for next year. That
will bring the agency’s total budget to $27.3 billion, a sizeable boost
by anybody’s standards. The NIH is one of the few federal agencies (apart from
the Defense Department) to see any kind of budget increase, given the War on
Terrorism. And yet, more than a year after taking over the White House, the Bush
administration has yet to name a director for the agency it is lavishing money
on.
Some of the…
