Zerhouni warns against driving Chinese scientists out of the U.S.

Overreaction to concerns about Chinese threats to the integrity of American science could create an exodus of talented researchers that would cause lasting harm to U.S. national interests, former NIH Director Elias Zerhouni warned in an editorial published in Science.

An Editor’s Commentary in BioCentury published last month expressed similar concerns, warning that exaggerated fears about Chinese spying threaten to erode American competitiveness (see “Fearmongering About China”)...