The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
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This work is fundamental to advancing how we diagnose, prevent and treat the diseases the impact all of us. I hope everyone advocates for this funding to be re-instated.
Does anyone remember when Jared Kushner, talking about technology and medical advancements suggested that ours (referring to him) may be the generation that doesn’t die?
And this is how you completely defeat the concept of attracting more young people, especially females, into the sciences. Boys should become tradesmen and girls should become baby factories. That's what God intended. Or so I've been told. 🙄
Why are Congress & the Senate standing back and doing nothing as America is raped and pillaged by the billionaire mafia. All three branches of government are dominated by those who are in the pockets of, or are too scared to stand up and defend our democracy against the tyrannical Trump/Musk regime
If I was involved in administration I’d first eliminate funding for evaluating and treating complications arising from morbid obesity and incest. Hit the MAGAts and musk rats 🐀 where they live.
The NIH has been studying all of that for the last 75 years. Who are you trying to kid. Try listing every cure they have found because I haven't heard of a single one.
Whatever Elon's stooges are doing, keep in mind that it has nothing to do with ensuring that the government retains the power to *provide for the common good*. Cutting jobs or programs for the sake of spending less money leaves out consideration for what's important to the citizenry.
ICYMI when it came out in 2018, Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is more relevant now than ever. He explains why various government agencies exist and how the first Trump admin didn't know what they didn't know and didn't care. Scary.
MAYBE, if fate and karma is on OUR SIDE, they'll ALL, in maga, and Republicans, will contract EVERY fatal disease w/o cures, and not have access to research for cures!...aka...PAYBACK!
It’s Ok though, Elon gave himself more money than he saved in grants so he can *maybe-but-not-really* dig tunnels and go to an inhabitable planet in rockets that explode. What a guy!
Penicillin was invented thanks to scientists. It saved the lives of many millions of people. This is real proof of the importance of the National Institutes of Health.
Don't worry fellow Americans, if you're not a billionaire it's your patriotic duty to die from diseases that should be curable. Wonder what nation will take our place as we give up decades of knowledge
And where do the MAGA cult members think that “savings” is going, because once Congress sends it down the pipeline for a particular purpose, it doesn’t have anywhere else to go unless Congress reappropriates it and the GOP-led Congress is doing NOTHING.
You need to get on your fact checkers. This is false: "A temporary pause in publicizing or funding new grants in order to review them is typical for a new administration," Judge Glock, director of research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, wrote...
I think this might backfire, but not for the reason it should.
NIH-granted research is often used by "Big Pharma", developed, and sold, saving them billions in R&D.
"The NIH funded basic or applied research related to 386 of 387 drugs approved between 2010 and 2019."
Absolutely, I work in drug development and nothing we do would be possible without public sector basic research. We all have academic colleagues who need our support.
Treacherous. The waste, the fraud, the treachery is in DEFENSE. It is Medicare at all levels. And it is in treating Federal Agencies as Employment Agencies for PO Blacks.
NIH saved my life. Their data & research grants allowed for miraculous new treatments of breast cancer. My breast cancer was treated with a lumpectomy. I didn’t lose my breast nor muscle mass, nor stripped of useful lymph nodes. I wasn’t disfigured. This surgery was possible bc of NIH. Save it.
It took the Nazi’s
1 month
3weeks
2 days
8 hours to
dismantle a constitutional republic.
We have lost to a fascist:
AG
FBI HEAD
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
Top navel officer
Pentagon
SCOTUS Is compromised
Federal agencies being dismantled
Our media is compromis
Anyone with any knowledge about research will tell you that by pausing or stopping this research:
It will set back the development of better ways to treat diseases or even cures by years
Better treatments or Cures to any major disease will not only save lives but save everyone money
It will be privatised and monopolised. Those companies will charge a bomb to those who can afford it. The billionaires don’t care about the rest of us.
I am so angry about this. My husband has stage 4 metastatic melanoma, and he is running out of options. And now, with this cut to NIH, research will suffer, and so will all of those dealing with cancer. I hate those who voted for this orange we have in the White House.
The emails I have personally seen concerning grant money that has disappeared overnight from science and medicine studies are tragic.
Universities are in a very tight spot.
To all who feel hopeless, weary, outraged.
Read this and follow through.
You will feel the emotion of citizenship afterwards!
Share it with others who are frightened and alone.
To all who feel hopeless, weary, outraged.
Read this and follow through.
You will feel the emotion of citizenship afterwards!
Share it with others who are frightened and alone.
Sure. But I want to hear this vaunted news agency start telling the truth about our republic instead of dancing around it. I donate, and now I'm trying to hold them accountable.
Something like 10% of Americans are on one of the GLP-1 agonists of which Ozempic is the most known. That doesn't include people getting compounded generic GLP-1 meds due to cost. And the numbers are rising.
He will do nothing useful. He’s inexperienced and unqualified, and with his past, should be giving no one advice. Btw, there are some indications Oz may even have some efficacy w/ Alzheimer’s. We’ll see.
In the next 5 minutes, Trump may:
1 Start trade war
2 Say sentence with no known words
3 Declare war on close allie
4 Say he has "love affair" with psychopathic dictator
5 Crap his pants
6 Explain windmills cause cancer
7 Destroy more democracy
8 Say Arnold Palmer has big penis
9 Grab pussy or flag
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All hail the new US. Stupider, dumber and poorer.
RFK Jr. 2028
Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for best non-fiction:
all will be punished
for this evil
“[a]ppropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law.”
NIH-granted research is often used by "Big Pharma", developed, and sold, saving them billions in R&D.
"The NIH funded basic or applied research related to 386 of 387 drugs approved between 2010 and 2019."
Big Pharma have deep pockets.
But geez, I never thought the acronyms and tedious processes of the NIH would end up in NPR, being explained to the general public.
Just like I never thought this would happen to the NIH.
it’s another sign of how fallen these times are
a massive tax on the most precious non-renewable resources — time and mindspace
It took the Nazi’s
1 month
3weeks
2 days
8 hours to
dismantle a constitutional republic.
We have lost to a fascist:
AG
FBI HEAD
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
Top navel officer
Pentagon
SCOTUS Is compromised
Federal agencies being dismantled
Our media is compromis
It will set back the development of better ways to treat diseases or even cures by years
Better treatments or Cures to any major disease will not only save lives but save everyone money
Universities are in a very tight spot.
If Republicans stay in lock step, and pass their budget by March 14, there won’t be funding to unfreeze.
Get off the couch 🛋️ and into the streets. We need the court of public opinion turning NOW
Read this and follow through.
You will feel the emotion of citizenship afterwards!
Share it with others who are frightened and alone.
Read this and follow through.
You will feel the emotion of citizenship afterwards!
Share it with others who are frightened and alone.
My A$$.
Big pharma rubbing their hands together deviously like Mr. Burns right now.
RFK, Jr will lose that war, badly.
Dump him.
1 Start trade war
2 Say sentence with no known words
3 Declare war on close allie
4 Say he has "love affair" with psychopathic dictator
5 Crap his pants
6 Explain windmills cause cancer
7 Destroy more democracy
8 Say Arnold Palmer has big penis
9 Grab pussy or flag
Firing people who save lives and / or money is a "saving" only if you are an idiot or a monster. He is both.
Are they going to Elon?