There will be some "leftists did it to themselves" framing about this, but no, shutting down basic science research and health communication by people who don't believe in science should be blamed on the people who don't believe in science.
I feel like the principled position for Trump supporters should be to decline any medical treatment whose development was facilitated by federal health research funding.
If the $ goes away too, shutting off the faucet is a quick way to shed a LOT of staff at Unis. Tons of soft-money NIH folks out there. Since COVID, public health isn't separable from partisan ship. 🛟
People have been saying for weeks that DOGE has been blatantly violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act, but the first time Trump invokes the Act is to shit down health research.
DHS let go of its Cyber Safety Review Board which may or may not have been a FACA. Regardless, the dismissal of world class technical expertise because it might disagree with the administration and its inner circle is deeply troubling.
Probably DonOld is well paid by China and other adversaries to keep our country from surpassing them in research and advancement. The dumbest people elected the dumbest president to dumb down the rest of the country so they won’t feel so dumb.
Active researchers and scientists will be deeply reluctant to publicly criticize the upending of federal scientific agencies because they fear it will mean their research will be blackballed by those in charge.
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That is where we are now.