This comes at a time we can ill afford weakness: a healthy science base is crucial for our economy and for addressing the technological problems currently faced by our planet, such as climate change, global pandemics and food security.
The president's 2008 budget request for DOE also includes healthy science-office gains.
That is not to say that evolution should be presented as if it is without controversy indeed an indicator of healthy science is the existence of ongoing debates.
"This is healthy for science".
Xavier Dumusque of the University of Geneva, who led the original discovery effort, said that Dr. Hatzes's challenge was healthy for science.
The funding scene is healthy, the science and the scientific ambitions are inspiring, and the community is optimistic.
The so-called Northwick Park drug trial caused organ damage to six healthy volunteers (Science, 24 March, p. 1688).
But in recent years, strains of MRSA that are even more virulent have started spreading outside hospitals and attacking perfectly healthy people (Science, 14 March 2003, p. 1639).
The 407-page bill adopts nearly all of the recommendations from a 2005 National Academies' panel that Congress asked for a to-do list of how to preserve a healthy economy (Science, 21 October 2005, p. 423).
Nneka Leiba, director of Environmental Working Group's (EWG) healthy living science program, proposed some thought-provoking questions on the subject in an interview with HuffPost.
Instead, he has published a commentary in Current Science, saying, "for the healthy growth of science it is useful to periodically rock the boat and when a body of knowledge grows into a large ship we need giants like Wilson to rock it".
