Dr. Frances Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.
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Imagine leading a country where education and healthcare have been lagging behind most other countries, and then cutting back funds on education and healthcare. SMH
While I understand Dr. Collins’ reasoning, this is a massive loss to our health system that will have far reaching consequences for the public’s health.
How tragic for our nation. As a nurse I rely on NIH information and data needed to stay updated on my practice. I know the studies referenced by the NIH are peer reviewed and filled with solid data.
This is an incredibly huge deal. What a great loss. As is the loss to all research funding and researchers. This is going to force them to go outside the US to work.
I've met Dr. Collins as I am/was a patient at the NIH...a true genius and gentleman. All the years of research of the many maladies affecting the human race just tool a giant step backward.
America is about to go through its stupidest era ever. We’re literally dumbing our nation down, and will fall behind the rest of the world. This is truly the Idiocracy movie
Can you ask him to join the American Medical Association team? They have a YouTube channel keeping Americans informed about the flu, measles, rubella and coronavirus. Is the American regime trying to extinguish its own people??
What will rise from the ashes of the despot's destruction of our institutions will be incompetence, inefficiency, under the rule of Typhon, the despot, and completely lacking in competent leadership. It will be Chaos not Phoenix.
Dr Collins is an amazing person/scientist. He wrote an amazing book in defense of religion. I didn't agree with his findings, but impressed by his arguments. How sad... a true scholar that shaped my world view, regardless of my differing opinions.
Heard an interview with him a few months ago on NPR and was so impressed that I bought his latest book. He is a highly intelligent yet humble and caring man. He defends the scientific community yet openly admits when mistakes have been made. America needs more people like him.
This is a huge loss. Dr. Collins is the epitome of what our government should be fighting desperately to keep - a true scientist who has given us untold numbers of discoveries that helped to keep us healthy.
Trump and Musk will be responsible for so many deaths because they are firing, laying off, buying out thousands of experts, researchers and investigators that mitigate so many horrendous diseases. Fuck Trump and Musk to burn in hell!
Same people who campaigned on democrats defunding the police, are now defunding the government only to make it collapse from the calamity. I believe our military will revolt over trumps treasonous ways. Then eventually, we the people of America, will take the trump administration down!!
Huge loss. I strongly urge the EU through the EPHA or a new organization to scoop up some of these scientists. Create a new counterpart. When you come up with cures etc sell them to capitalist/fascist regimes and use the proceeds for more science and to invest in people. The USA is DOA now.
Slashing and burning the national health and vital services and intrasturture will only make a tragedy worse.
And we all know something unexpected will happen in a nation this size.
The GOP will never grow a pair!
It's unfortunately a lose-lose situation now for anyone with knowledge, integrity, and the ability to lead to stay. I thank Dr. Collins for his service and wish him well. It's a forced choice. He can't do his job under this administration.
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Thanks, conservatives
And we all know something unexpected will happen in a nation this size.
The GOP will never grow a pair!
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