Fortunately, many cancers can now be successfully treated, thanks to decades of scientific research that carefully and systematically discovered what does and doesn’t work. Research at NIH, the CDC, NOAA and other agencies has been hobbled by the loss of staff and critical research funding. Morale at NIH is dangerously low, according to a friend who works at one of the NIH Institutes. Make it personal by telling them how your own family members, like mine, have been helped — even kept alive — by scientific research. What’s at stake in science funding is incalculable.