There’s nothing about this at the NYT or WSJ right now, just articles about the “war on DEI.” Are there science reporters here who can write this up? This place is going to have to drive the news the way 🐦 did in the 2010s
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Don Moynihan
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
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https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/nih-travel-suspension-trump
Never touched a patient after finishing Medical School
And he was the one who spearheaded Great Barrington Declaration - herd immunity (A)
Then he genuflects against who advocated vaccination alone - while he and this acolytes campaigned against every mitigation - to help billionaires reap in (B)
He is going to cut vaccine and infectious disease research for sure - while we have to look at mitigations until we try an engineered viral like particle as vaccine against SARS CoV2.
Ease of (C)
4 years of this - and disinformation and minimizing - most of us will have Long Covid (D)
https://www.wsj.com/health/trump-administration-seeks-to-stop-virus-research-republicans-have-blamed-for-covid-19-pandemic-337cec1b
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