I do not wish to sound as though I am in any way defending Trump, but I do not want you all to be angry about a situation that exists purely in a purposefully exaggerated headline.
I want you to be angry at the TRUTH, because there’s already plenty there to be angry at that you don’t need to go looking for more.
His administration has abruptly cancelled research-grant reviews, travel and trainings for scientists inside and outside the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
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The cancelling of meetings and travel is part of a pause in external communications issued on 21 January by the NIH’s parent organization, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Researchers who spoke to Nature say that although a short, daylong pause in communications at US agencies has occurred in the past when new administrations have started, to reorient strategy, the reach and length of the Trump team’s — it is set to last until at least 1 February — is unprecedented. Without advisory-committee meetings, the NIH cannot issue research grants, temporarily freezing 80% of the agency’s US$47-billion budget that funds research across the country and beyond.
This is unprecedented and WILL cause turmoil and harm that should not have existed. But this is also a far cry from the headline that reads “Trump Shuts Down All Cancer Research”.
As far as I can tell, grants that have already been issued are safe, and research can continue under those as long as the money doesn’t run out, but no extensions or additions can be filed until at least February 1st, nor may any NEW grants be issued. We’ll just have to wait and see what the Regime does from that date, though it certainly won’t be as forgiving and loving as what was policy under Biden because why the fuck would it be. Trump is CLEARLY on a mission to kick puppies and punt babies.
Let’s just get mad at him for the puppies and babies he’s actually kicking without imagining more, because THAT’S how they burn us out and get us too tired to oppose.
amhrancas 