The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research

ck2

there is one single person who is driving 99% of the damage Russell Vought everyone knows who Stephen Miller is but Russell Vought is the real monster for perspective, he got rid of the very programs that developed a drug to keep his child alive from a rare genetically inherited disease now you get what we are dealing with and here's the thing, Vance is the handpicked successor by Heritage Foundation so even if Trump goes away someday, the nightmare will continue if not get even worse might take a century to recover, I don't see how this is overcome in a mere decade

softwaredoug

When you see Chinese emerging AI dominance, you can’t help but connect it to the administrations hostility to immigration and research. We should be attracting and retaining the world’s top researchers, not driving them away with dysfunction and xenophobia. In the past it’d be hard for Chinese labs to retain researchers. Now the upside to the US isn’t there.

mono442

How is that different from forcing dei before? To me, it seems that the Trump administration is doing the same thing as previous administrations, just more openly.

the_real_cher

Ive worked in federally funded instituions. The places I worked were essentially white collar welfare. One could do nothing and collect a paycheck. Not saying all federally finded places are like this but this system is ripe for abuse and I dont know how you elimiate the abuse while still giving the deserving scientists the funding they need.

awinter-py

comments on this at MR are brutal it's one at the top like 'maybe you guys shouldn't have built a network to launder chuds huh' followed by like 50 chuds defending the funding cuts because of DEI keywords in the grants