Part of why American government is crumbling is because the most powerful interests have sided with the destruction of their own foundations. Big Pharma's lobbying arm, PhRMA, has issued not one word about the Trump admin's assault on NIH.
Why not? Who knows, maybe they just prefer fascism. 🤷‍♂️
Why not? Who knows, maybe they just prefer fascism. 🤷‍♂️
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Don Moynihan
Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
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Remember the douchiest douchebag Martin Shkreli the Pharma Bro?
NIH doesn't help them with either of those.
- MAGA morons: easily manipulated
- Business people: support whichever candidate they think will make them more money
- Ultra-wealthy: democracy is an inconvenience
- Russian covert ops: Trump family, Russian mafia
Latter two are doing in the U.S. exactly what Putin has done in Russia.
Too many questions, not enough answers.
Also, even if they don't, C-suites are incapable of planning far into the future, because all the stock market cares about is the next quarterly earning report.
America created the basic research to patent to VC funded firm super highway. Rs loved it. But they are happy to switch to investing in unregulated medical scams, I guess.
MNCs benefited US R&D but have no political backbone & can easily relocate.
What they do not recognize is that there are a few actual winners in fascism. Look at Russia.
the NIH doesn't matter to them 'cuz they plan on being long gone by the time the lack of a NIH kills their industry
those kind of people don't occupy the c-suite!
Brian Stelter is cowed and cowardly.
I'd love to know who the 'we're so back' loser is.
if this was a fear situation they would turn on the current administration at the appropriate moment, but since this is about greed they'll defend Trumpworld when it starts to collapse
Exactly, that’s what you were being paid a million each to stop. Looks like you fucked up.
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The article, along with extra links, is in this Bluesky thread. Tap above the 'article pic' and scroll ⏬
1) The speed and volume of changes under Trump II are more than corporate America can process.
2) Corporate America has an incentive to stay silent because it really wants those juicy tax cuts, and also the fascism/enemies list thing is concerning.
Trump shut off most NIH funding, which will stop the creation of new drugs, that's less bad or not even bad at all?
Nothing from AARP about the risk to social security
Happy to be wrong if I missed something
Source
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/acip-cdc-vaccine-meeting-postponed/
There’s your answer.
The corporation (as the movie pointed out) is a psychopathic entity. It is fundamentally different from a small business. Too many voters conflate these things.