© 2003 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 95, No. 13, 938-939,
July 2, 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press
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U.K. Government Responds to Criticism of Medical Research Council
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The U.K. government has dismissed a savage attack by an all-party parliamentary committee that accuses the state-funded Medical Research Council (MRC) of misguided strategies, poor financial management, and discriminating against younger researchers.
The controversy started in May when the Science and Technology Committee of the U.K. Parliament issued a report critical of the MRC, which is the principal government funder of medical research in the United Kingdom. The U.K. government issued its response in June.
The governments robust defense of the MRC, which allocated about