As if today wasn’t enough. More on the horizon. 🧪https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/29/rfk-jr-laying-off-entire-office-of-infectious-disease-and-hivaids-policy/ #science #NIH - ThreadSky

princess-vimentin.bsky.social • 10 days ago

As if today wasn’t enough. More on the horizon.

🧪https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/29/rfk-jr-laying-off-entire-office-of-infectious-disease-and-hivaids-policy/

#science #NIH

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kimcat44.bsky.social•10 days ago

Death and destruction are the only things Trump administration is successful in.

james-thomasson96.bsky.social•10 days ago

That is silly and hurtful.

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•10 days ago

An understatement.

james-thomasson96.bsky.social•10 days ago

I wrote this on 2/3/2025 - When you understand the dark triad behavior - then you understand their actions. I predicted this back in April 2024. Sadly, very few believed me. My first year at university - I read Issac Asimov’s foundation books. My science back ground has refined my methods

james-thomasson96.bsky.social•10 days ago

Agree - sadly - https://www.stonedpony.org/its-about-revenge-stupid/

mikemelton.bsky.social•9 days ago

The next pandemic should be interesting.

diagonal.fish•10 days ago

I will point out that this article is from March 29th, not today. So it was likely referring to today's RIFs, I'm guessing?

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•10 days ago

Forbes article seems to focus on the staff involved HIV/AIDS policy. Different department. But who knows, it might have happened today already.

diagonal.fish•10 days ago

I was pretty sure I saw some stuff about cuts to that department, but it was in some reddit thread so not the most reliable source.

dfarber1959.bsky.social•10 days ago

We are so doomed

hiegstar.bsky.social•10 days ago

This sun dried tomato nepo baby is one of the biggest pieces of shit out of all of them.

vieuxhipster.bsky.social•10 days ago

The return of HIV resistance in the poorest area of the USA. It’s gonna be nuts. Hang on to your seat and your sex. Back to our Gen x years. One of the most insanely successful disease program gone in a blimp. Not a single corporate or public figure to stand up. Insane !

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•10 days ago

Pharma executives need to speak out. Pharmaceutical companies know that their work and revenue depend on studies funded by the NIH and other federal money.

overallthiscrap.bsky.social•10 days ago

The most unqualified cabinet in history !! Trump is a buffoon !

mecha-sheep.bsky.social•10 days ago

Wait for the guys they will recruit. I bet on :
1- Televangelist who enforce healing through prayers and suffering.
2- alt-religious figures. Like the 1, but with psychedelic drugs.
3- macho life coach. May double as 1. Will promote camps where people will be healed through physical exercices.

mecha-sheep.bsky.social•10 days ago

4- alt-science guys. Will promote megadose of vitamin C. Or zinc and hydroxychloroquine. Or whatever science-looking snake oil they will sell for a very high price.
5- right-wing New Age. May combine with 1, 2 or 3. Think energy crystals and ley lines, but with nazi occultism in it.

mecha-sheep.bsky.social•10 days ago

6-eugenic guy. The weak must die, the blood must be purified. May be combined with right-wing news age.
7- the cyber-bro guy. Elon's cultists, working for Neuralink. Will propose to fix you with a device than can kill you if you stop paying the subscription.

unusualtimeline.bsky.social•10 days ago

Shoot the cunt.

saerickson.bsky.social•10 days ago

What could possibly go wrong with/from these cuts?

Note: you are welcome to respond with lists.

rthrtylr.bsky.social•10 days ago

“Cuts” is missing an “n”.

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•9 days ago

🧪 1. Each disease that is studied is always more complex than we expect. So when these cuts are made, here is little room for exploring new questions that help propel research forward. Subfields of research are expanding within their own field. Essentially it will be difficult to keep up.

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•9 days ago

🧪2. The destruction of the infrastructure makes it difficult to conduct experiments on a regular basis. Shared facilities exist for a reason; they are used by the labs in research institutions.

3. The absence of skilled scientists to evaluate the quality of work will let bad science flourish.

therealgobsmacked.bsky.social•9 days ago

It will go overseas for some other country to boost.

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•9 days ago

🧪4. Of course, the brain drain. Once skilled and talented people leave to go to places where there is funding, it will take a strong effort to recruit them back. It took two months to destroy a valuable institution. It will take much more effort and resources to rebuild and restore.

jasind.bsky.social•10 days ago

Sure, why not. How many people are going to die because him?

judeasamaria.bsky.social•10 days ago

Of all the Kennedys on the planet, why this effing effer still alive to kill us all with #ebola?

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•10 days ago

“…thenumber of HHS employees will be slashed from around 82,000 to 62,000. This will include cutting around 3,500 jobs at the Food and Drug Administration, 2,400 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 1,200 at the National Institutes of Health” . Staggering numbers.🧪

koamac.bsky.social•10 days ago

Intentional cruelty presented as streamlining of efficiency to apathetic US Citizens who didn’t pay attention to the purported “blaming of folks ‘considered’ others”! The outcomes of all such cruelty to others’ will bury all of us together, soon!

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•10 days ago

Has a Hunger Games like feel to it. I’m waiting for more people to realize what is happening.

koamac.bsky.social•10 days ago

Okay!

mauricev2.bsky.social•10 days ago

Where are the lawsuits? Where are the courts?

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•10 days ago

🧪I’m sure lawsuits will be filed. The blitz of cuts seem planned and to deliberate cause chaos. As of recently, there are 46 cases in the which federal judges have blocked Trump’s policies. This blog by Steve Vladeck is pretty good.

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-setting-the-record-straight-on?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

desertrat1933.bsky.social•10 days ago

📌

tabuto.bsky.social•10 days ago

I talked to my Physician today about all the cuts to services that impact health, healthcare, research, diversity research and publications. Now I’m talking to all by Science friends. I hope you will join us on April 5 find your local rally at https://Handsoff2025.com

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•10 days ago

🧪Speaking of lawsuits…
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/health/public-health-funding-states-sue-hhs-rfk/index.html

princess-vimentin.bsky.social•10 days ago

🧪A fun fact:
President Theodore Roosevelt engendered the creation of the FDA.
He saw a need to rectify the mistreatment of immigrant workers and their work conditions in meatpacking plants. He signed the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

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