"The consolidation/RIF plan pulls power away from scientists and puts it in the hands of political employees. It sets up Trump and Musk to kill NIH as an evidence-based science funder. We must stop this plan."
New contributed post on our blog: Please read.
It describes Orban and authoritarianism. 🧪
New contributed post on our blog: Please read.
It describes Orban and authoritarianism. 🧪
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Glad to see some people are thinking about the Orban/authoritarianism aspects of this plan — and of the whole Trump admin.
Please keep sending us things. We want to hear from you.
"I found it alarming. Those of us following the day to day stumbles of the Musk/Trump administration sometimes feel encouraged by just how incompetent they sometimes seem. But Kim warns Trump is nonetheless achieving most of the ingredients for autocracy."
If you're on reddit, will you please like this so that others will see it? Thanks!
https://www.reddit.com/r/NIH/comments/1jm5oax/the_nih_firing_plan_is_really_an_authoritarian/
It is useful to compare to Viktor Orban’s moves. L
This is an Orbanization of HHS and NIH, as our post above discusses.
In a speech he titled “How We Fight,” Orban told the crowd gathered at Conservative Political Action Conference to focus now on the 2024 election, saying they had “two years to get ready.”
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-dallas-marjorie-taylor-greene-3c5a43ea6cd3a3472a05f48d3b527a76
Know the emails , Social media ,
of all your reps and journalist who have the “ power” to expose their doing. There are many good folks out there who do.