...The announcement has amplified rumbling criticism of the initiative. Eight prominent scientists in the field laid out their concerns in a letter2 published in Science on 3 October. Molecular biologist Hiten Madhani, the letter's lead signatory, has also set up an online petition to encourage others to register their opposition. "I hope the next NIH director just eliminates the programme lock, stock and barrel," says Madhani, who works at the University of California, San Francisco.
"We think it's a humongous waste of money for a lot of reasons," says Kevin Struhl of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who is one of the letter's signatories....
"We think it's a humongous waste of money for a lot of reasons," says Kevin Struhl of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who is one of the letter's signatories....
