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get to it and have a good discussion. today we are going to look at the federal government s role in funding research. i am concerned the government system of supporting research and is inefficient and often incentivizes the wrong things which leads to bad science and wasted taxpayer dollars. we ve posted examples like this national science foundation study which had money being spent on ugandan gambling habits and we do it year after year. senator langford found investigating if kids don t like food that has been sneezed on. are you more or less likely to eat the food in the buffet line if someone sneezes on it. and who could forget the shrimp found on the treadmill. i remember as a kid in the 1970s seeing senator william describe wastes such as this as he gave his golden fleece awards and here we are still with the same kind of questions 40 years later. part of the problem is the old addage, public or perish. researchers that publish are more likely to get funding. so how d
StanfordCaliforniaUnited-statesNew-hampshireChinaTanzaniaVirginiaTogoMichiganUgandaLondonCity-of the committee for increased hiring authorities. this hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. let me call this meeting of the senate veterans committee, this hearing to order. thank all of you for coming today. especially our witnesses. we have a number of members who are on the way, but we re going to in the interest of time, we re going to get started. today s hearing is about the issue of suicide. as many people in the room know, this month in america is national suicide prevention month across the country. suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss and wasteful loss of life, and preventable loss of life. i think john will remember when we first came in as a committee three years ago, our first bill that we passed was the clay/hunt suicide prevention bill. passed this committee 99-0, and we ll ask the secretary and the other members from the v.a. to give us any report they might have on the progress of the implementation in terms of the act, but it s a very important act
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