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In an apparent security crackdown, the National Institutes of Health is requiring visitors to reveal their citizenship and has recently blocked two Iranian scientists who came to give presentations from entering its campus, The Washington Post reports.
One incident, reported in a complaint from a group representing NIH scientists, involved a graduate student from Georgetown University who came for a job interview. After being detained at security, he was allowed to enter the campus. But prior to his talk, NIH police removed the student from a lab and escorted him off the premises.
In the second incident, a man who remains anonymous but whom the Post identifies as a brain researcher, says he was ordered to leave the campus then later offered an “exception” to give his talk to NIH scientists. He says he worked at NIH between ...
