It's not "Breaking News" now, since it was announced by NIH yesterday. But it is breaking.......
https://washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/08/nih-cuts-billions-dollars-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
https://washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/08/nih-cuts-billions-dollars-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
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As long as Elon can continue to get his f*ckn tax break... right?
Musk is using a/the GSAI chatbot, see details in the link and screenshots below.
AI-believes: Who really trusts in his data used as input, and consequences, putting jobs, researchers, research etc. on the line for ... what?
https://www.phind.com/search/cm6wdwlh900002a6f6frdaqda
* Purpose and Context
* System Architecture and Workflow (prev. skeet)
* Understanding the System Components (not shown in screenshots)
* How it works (screenshot below)
* Development Status
As always, what reads good from AI still can be wrong ... So review the refs given
This can not be compensated. This destroys biomedical science at large. World-wide dimension. Damage could be such enourmous so that after Trump, all will have to be restarted from scratch (if there will be a time after Trump)
Better medical solutions are out there, but by cutting research, Big Pharma can continue to milk existing inferior treatments without competition
Complete regulatory capture
That's our world
Good one
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/podcasts/the-daily/gilead-hiv-drug.html
This is a helluva approach to reducing "wasteful spending."
Especially for a family with childhood cancer.
You would reach more people, when you add a good description into the Alt-text field.
That is pretty easy, especially, when your image just contain text.
This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
#accessibility
That’s because they want to implement the techno bro science. America needs to wake the fk up. We’re in trouble.
—Many of the posts are about the economic and jobs impact for each state and the US overall, which is critical.
—The investment in biomedical research leads to seminal discoveries and ways to promote human health (and more than pays for itself multi-fold).....
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01902-8
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.240876
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(25)00004-X
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-024-02059-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-025-00198-0
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/opinion/double-the-nih-budget.html
"We are in a time of unimaginable scientific and technological progress. By funding basic medical research, Congress can transform our fiscal health, and our personal health, too."
Were I an aspiring young researcher in the sciences, I’d be looking for opportunities in Canada, the EU and elsewhere.
The future is bleak here!