What do National Institutes of Health funding cuts mean for universities? We ask Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science and former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor.
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It means we are no longer where science is done without political and commercial goals coming first. It means innovation will happen elsewhere. It means people who didn’t need to die will die.
Harvard will be fine you're right, though still doing much less medical research than before. It's the vast majority of other universities in the country that are put in serious danger by NIH cuts.
Blatantly false and I'm sure you know that. They haven't raised direct research funding at all and you can't do research out in the field without electricity or equipment. 15% is not sustainable, no institutions were working at that rate.
This exact policy change was also written into project 2025, and its stated purpose their was to hurt universities. Anything else is a lie or half truth.
Institutions need to address the explosion in the number of administrators. Ask any faculty member at any research hospital about the sheer number of deans, associate deans, chairs, vice chairs, etc. Those costs are out of control and may be where grants seem to be wasted.
I upset my fellow scientists by saying this, but NIH funding is broken and this may actually be good in the long run. This is mostly “student work” with poor replication rates. More organized funding for science would serve humanity better. The unis should also stop wasting money on football.
If there was a good faith attempt to improve the system that would be one thing, but this administration, this movement is anti science, anti reason, and anti education.
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How’s that?
All to "save" less than a percent of what Republican tax cuts for the rich are costing us!
This policy change will result in more spent on research and less on overhead.
You know, "publish or perish" isn't literal.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy
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