Letter

Excerpt from letter: 

“This recent censorship controversy is just one more in a litany of instances in which these companies have shown utter disregard for being democratic public squares and seek to suppress speech that does not advance their particular agenda. Notably, these powerful platforms provide no transparency into what methodology their employees use to apply content moderation policies, how their employees identify what needs to be tempered in distribution, or what sources their employees rely on to decide that something may be false—all information necessary for the American people...

Excerpt: “Thus, this additional context and customary data standardization should be taken into account in assessing the potential role the 2001 label change had on the opioid epidemic. Studies, documents, and other data support these concerns related to higher dosage and longer duration in oxycodone prescribing (including OxyContin prescribing) that contributed to the opioid crisis,” wrote Walden, Guthrie and Griffith.

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Excerpt: “However, it appears from HHS’s recent course of conduct reported in the media that internal concerns have arisen over whether HHS contracting for non-HHS agencies was appropriate, including a possible concern about legal authorities. For example, the Acting Head of Contracting Activity of the PSC, announced in a June 14, 2019, memorandum to its customers that the PSC was terminating its $1.4 billion assisted acquisition program for non-HHS agencies. The same official wrote in an email that as a result of an ongoing internal review, PSC determined that...

Excerpt: “As the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, the NIH research community faces significant exposure to risks related to undue foreign influence on research, with more than 80 percent of NIH funding awarded to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 research institutions globally. Recently, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Director Christopher Wray described how Chinese researchers intentionally conceal participation in Chinese talent recruitment programs while accepting millions of dollars in U.S. federal grant funding as part of a larger agenda secretly to steal and bring...