She’s probably mostly kidding when she tells the origin story this way, but Kathy Hudson—until last year the deputy director for science, outreach, and policy at the National Institutes of Health—says that a massive update to the NIH’s rules for funding science started with humiliation.

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Scientists Hate the NIH’s New Rules for Experimenting on Humans

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Scientists Hate the NIH’s New Rules for Experimenting on Humans

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