California to vote on spending $16 billion to boost research after Trump cuts

“There is a strong case for investing more in biomedical research, but Proposition 38 is not the right way to do it.”—Dr. Robert Kaplan

Science examines Proposition 38’s unusual funding structure and reports on concerns raised by Dr. Robert Kaplan and David Panush about directing half the bond money to a single institution outside a competitive, peer-reviewed process.