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Summary
The Trump administration is slashing $4 billion annually from medical research funding by capping indirect costs, such as buildings and support staff, at 15% of NIH grants.
Previously, $9 billion of NIH’s $35 billion budget covered overhead expenses. Supporters, including Elon Musk, praise the cuts as reducing waste.
However, researchers warn the policy will cripple lifesaving research, halt clinical trials, and weaken U.S. innovation.
Critics urge NIH to reverse the decision, calling it a threat to public health and scientific progress.
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i mean, isn’t their whole argument that capitalism will do a much better job at innovation and progress so there is really no reason for the government to fund research.
they should get rid of NASA too, while they’re at it. let the private market (elon’s own spacex) fund their research.
Flood of shit.
They do so many shitty things that same people are overwhelmed. Remember, all Donnie has to do is cut off the funding; it’s time consuming for the opposition to fight back.
Meanwhile Elon’s team is moving so fast that the courts can’t catch them in time, which is I believe the only legal option for the opposition.
I forgot about it when I made the original comment.
Len Deighton wrote a one volume history of Hitler and the War. “Blitzkrieg” uses the idea that Hitler was successful as long as he kept moving fast. The other political parties let him become leader because they thought that he’d follow the law and let the next election occur. Then the French thought he’d respect Belgium’s neutrality. As soon as he stopped moving forward and had to play defense he was lost.
Hopefully since recent events have mirrored Hitler’s rise so well they will also mirror his fall. But faster please faster.
I meam, to be fair, it was only a decade for that all to happen.
Faster!
Look at some of the unforced error Trump has pulled. The California water fiasco, where he dumped millions of gallons of water that farmers desperately needed. None of the water did anything to help the wildfires. Complete loss. He fired the board of the Kennedy Center and installed himself as culture czar. In both cases we see that Trump has no one around him who can guide/control his stupidest impulses.
The good news is he’s going to make a lot of stupid mistakes that will force people to hate him. The bad news is that he’s going to make a lot of mistakes that will hurt people.
Agreed, but nobody I talk to even knows about the water release or the Kennedy center. Trump’s guaranteed die hard followers will never hear about his errors, and wouldn’t care if they did. They will never turn on him because that would involve admitting they have been wrong for so many years, in many cases they’ve made it their personality.
And that’s, what, 40% of the vote? The Democrats must run real progressives in the midterms and a real progressive for president in four. If we get to have a legitimate election again.
It may be heresy but I really don’t think the 90 million folks who stayed home are progressives who were waiting for a hard core Socialist. They are waiting for a really cool guy like John Kennedy or a war hero like Eisenhower. It’s sad, but we need a bigger TV star, not a super progressive.
Well I said progressive instead of leftist for a reason. But yeah star power could help. AOC could do it. She’s got nothing to exploit and she can obviously talk circles around whatever the fascists put up.
Well, expected flood of shit. He did the same the first time. He promised to do it again. He is doing it again.
Is another possibility that this was intended to force these funds and endeavors away from HCOL/blue areas to LCOL/red ones?
