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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Obama Gives Away $5 Billon in Medical Grants


“President Obama toured a Maryland cancer lab Wednesday to call attention to $5 billion in new government health science grants, which he described as the ‘largest single boost to biomedical research in history.’” (Los Angeles Times, Thursday)

He had to borrow it first. So what won’t we get for that money?

FEE Timely Classic
“Separate State and Science” (pdf) by Sheldon Richman


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.