David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Mark Hoofnagle
A de facto ban on federal funding of gun research was the entire purpose of the Dickey amendment. Unfortunately, it's worked to shut down gun violence research better than anyone could have predicted.https://twitter.com/MarkHoofnagle/status/1103710223779483648 …
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
Mark Hoofnagle @MarkHoofnagle
In closing comments they keep saying we can keep the Dickey amendment as a "guardrail" yet it acts as a ban. No one wants to risk the funding of their entire institution over subjective criteria that your research appears to support gun control. Dickey himself regretted it.
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