Huffington Post writer Sam Stein argued in a lengthy story about the National Institutes of Health that “Sequestration ushers in dark age of science in America.”

By “dark age” he meant substantially higher in inflation adjusted terms than during the Clinton administration and roughly the same as the Bush administration, which included unprecedented expansions from the Clinton years.

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