NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
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Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation must be destroyed. Demolished.
"He who acts to save his country from tyranny, domestic terrorism, Project 2025, and radical right wing criminals, violates no laws.”
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This denies “a small but real percentage of the population answers to critically important questions about their health”, says Shirley Tilghman. “You cannot eliminate a segment of the population by executive order, but you can harm them greatly.”
Five of six of the directors of these institutes affected the most by these grant cancellations were placed on admin leave last week.
WA has been hit hardest by the grant terminations, relative to how much NIH funding it typically receives in a year, with NC as a close second.
NY is hard hit too, because of Columbia.
We searched how many grants contained certain 'flagged words', like 'diversity' or 'bias', and Columbia had way more with <4 flagged words than any other school.
One cut grant was studying links between arsenic in drinking water and heart disease.