Đây là một trong những cách xài tiền của người dân đóng thuế lợi tức liên bang (fed income taxes) với sự hậu thuẫn (chữ trong bài báo là backing) của thống đốc republican, tiểu bang Texas với thống đốc Rick Perry:


7 advisers resign at embattled Texas cancer agency

By PAUL J. WEBER | Associated Press – 18 hrs ago






AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — At least seven scientists resigned in protest this week from Texas' embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting program, claiming the agency created with the backing of the governor and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is charting a new "politically-driven" path that puts commercial interests before science.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded nearly $700 million in grants since 2009, making Texas home to the nation's biggest pot of cancer-research dollars behind only the federal National Institutes of Health. But how the state agency picks projects has fallen under intensifying scrutiny, beginning in May when its chief scientific officer resigned in protest after it approved — without scientific review — a $20 million commercialization project.
Nobel laureate Dr. Phillip Sharp was among those stepping down this week, writing in his resignation letter that the CPRI is making funding decisions that carry a "suspicion of favoritism" in how the state is handing out taxpayer dollars. Dr. Bryan Dynlacht, another reviewer who's leaving, warned that the agency was headed down a path of systematic abuses.
"You may find that it was not worth subverting the entire scientific enterprise — and my understanding was that the intended goal of CPRIT was to fund the best cancer research in Texas — on account of this ostensibly new, politically driven, commercialization-based mission," Dynlacht wrote in his letter.
Commercialization projects focus on turning research into drugs or other sellable products rather than funding the research itself.
The letters were obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request. Sharp is professor at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Dynlacht is at the New York University School of Medicine.
In a statement, CPRIT executive director Bill Gimson called the accusations false and misinformed.
CPRIT was created though an ambitious bond measure approved by Texas voters in 2007. The agency has scientists across the country who help review proposals and choose projects to fund.
In May, chief scientific officer Dr. Alfred Gilman resigned in protest after the CPRIT approved a $20 million grant for a so-called incubator project at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The Nobel laureate told colleagues in heated emails that he was trying to prevent misuse of taxpayer dollars and funding decisions based on political considerations.
It was the largest amount of money the agency ever awarded for a single project. But since it was a commercialization project, it didn't undergo scientific review. The agency has since said the project would undergo such a review.
The latest resignations come on the eve of potentially significant changes in how the agency allocates funding. CPRIT has been steering 75 percent of all funding toward research, 15 percent toward commercialization, and 10 percent toward prevention efforts such as breast cancer screenings.
Those funding formulas could change at the agency's annual conference this month. Gimson has signaled that the time has come to put more money into private commercialization projects, saying that would get new drugs into the hands of patients quicker.
Dr. William Kaelin of Harvard Medical School, who served on CPRIT's scientific review council before he stepped down this week, said in his resignation letter that he recently learned two fellow reviewers who rejected the science behind two proposed commercialization projects were asked by state officials to reconsider their low marks. The letter neither cited the reviewers nor the officials.
"In this environment, I am not confident that scientific quality and rigor will triumph over grandiose promised and hucksterism," Kaelin wrote.
Gimson said the final decision on whether to revise scores still rests with each reviewer.
In his statement, Gimson said he wasn't surprised by the latest resignations given Gilman's departure, though he didn't elaborate. A successor has not yet been named.
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Bài báo tường thuật chỉ là một sự kiện còn nóng hổi về sự "yêu thương" của đảng Cộng Hòa đối với sức khỏe và lợi ích toàn dân trong rất nhiều bằng chứng tương tự...
Đọc comments sau bài báo tường thuật ở link dưới đây để thấy sự bất mãn của độc giả là những người dân đi làm và đóng thuế:


http://news.yahoo.com/7-advisers-res...012015029.html


Tôi thành thật xin lỗi những thành viên của ĐT hiện là cư dân của tiểu bang Texas và rất hy vọng rằng họ không là những người đã bầu cho Rick Perry và các ứng cử Cộng Hòa. Vì bài tường thuật và sự việc cùng các comments theo sau nó, thật sự đã đánh vào và làm tổn thương nặng nề đến niềm tự hào của họ.

Ngoài ra, có hai comments sau đây xin được trích lại vì những người viết chúng quá hay và nói lên được một phần của sự thật phũ phàng trong tâm lý đời sống xã hội không riêng gì tại tiểu bang Texas:

1/ Comment from Ron:
Yeah Our Govenor is a real POS he doesn't do anything for anybody that will not benefit him and his rich buddies I can not believe he is still with us there are to many poor idiots in My great state of Texas who still vote republican even though they have never made enough money for it to do them anygood but they will believe anything the rich tell them.

2/ Comment from KC:
I don't get it, either. I know so many people that are ripping off the state and vote Republican. I know a gal who has taught her son to go up to random people and say 'Obama is a socialist'. Her son is 7! Man, she's a piece of work, too. She won't get her company provided insurance b/c she claims it's too expensive. Her son was in the hospital, at my taxpaying expense, for a week with a nasty infection. She, of course, claims she can't pay it so the state is picking up the cost. Yet, 2 weeks later she took her son on a week long vacay to DISNEY! I just saw her a couple weeks ago and she had just gotten back from vacay AGAIN! Clearly she doesn't understand that going on vacay is optional! Insurance is not! And she obviously didn't get the reich wing memo about personal responsibility.
I know another gal, she was married, left her husband, got pregnant by boyfriend, had the baby on MEDICAID, then boyfriend fled the country and she's on WIC, Medicaid for the child, food stamps. Know why she won't get a job? Because the house she lives in that her parents paid cash for is in the country. She whines 'it's too far for me to drive'. Oh please! When I had my daughter, I lived in the country and drove 1.5 hours each way so I could work. AND I went to school. #$%$ is just lazy and doesn't want to work. Yet she posts about her love of Romney every single day. She missed that memo about lazy people living off the gov't.
Yes, these are the people that vote Republican. They are the 47%. They get big, fat refunds at the end of the year that they spend on themselves....not doing the responsible thing. They are too stupid to have felt degraded or insulted by Romney's 47% claim. In their mind's, it's everyone else who is the problem, not them.


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Nó cũng nói lên rằng tại sao có những người hoàn toàn dửng dưng khi nhìn thấy cảnh các "gia đình có công với cách mạng" năm xưa đang bị đàn áp tại VN:

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