Stop the Fraud, and Increase Money for Science

This article was written by Dr. Bill Wattenburg with the hopes that honest, concerned scientists and the U.S. Congress could be moved enough to end just a few wasteful practices and use the savings to double the amount of money available for good, peer-reviewed medical research that could save hundreds of times more lives than often-wasteful government regulations ever could. Please make every effort you can to share this with your member of the U.S. House of Representatives, your U.S. Senator, and the President of the United States.

The article is made available in several formats to aid its wide dissemination. It doesn’t matter so much how you transmit it to your elected officials, only that it reach them from as many concerned citizens as possible.

I’ve made the Web address as simple as possible. Pick a format of the article, and follow the instructions below to send an e-mail to your representatives.

• How to Double Federal Money for Scientific Research in the U.S.

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2. Open the file in a plain text editor (Mac users can use TeachText, Windows uses can use Notepad), select all of the text in the file (select Edit|Select All or something similar from the menu), and copy it to the clipboard (Mac: clover-C; Windows: Control-C).
3. Find your elected representative with the following links, open their page, find and click on their e-mail address, and then paste the text from the clipboard into the message body, add a note of your own words to the top, and send the message. If your web browser is not configured to send e-mail properly, then copy the e-mail address to the clipboard and paste it into your e-mail application after you have begun composing a new message and have the text of the article included.

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U.S. Senate:

• U.S. Senators—homepages (by state; most have phone, fax, and e-mail addresses)
• Senators’ e-mail in one place (work in progress)

U.S. Congress:

• Determine who your representative is with the U.S. Congress Representative look-up (by state)
• Once you know what district you are in, you and search for his or her e-mail address Capweb’s list (this contains phone and fax numbers as well).

White House:

• President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
• Vice-President Dick Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov
• First Lady: first.lady@whitehouse.gov

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