The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.
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Scientists are an important part of the federal workforce and their discoveries lead to new small business opportunities in everything from pharma to medical devices. It even betters human health.
Why is Trump destroying this pipeline? To give billionaires more tax cuts?
There is a simple reason for this. The more educated you are, the less likely you will believe in propaganda. The uneducated are absolutely certain they know everything but know little. The highly educated know how much they have yet to learn. It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
The global far-right movement is the revolution of the mediocre.
It's much easier to believe in conspiracy theories that make them feel smarter than to study humbly.
Thanks to NADA (Now America is Dumb Again), we can move on with our lives without science. Oops, forgot that science is actually the engine that fuels advanced capitalism. Oh well, we can still dig coal!
This alone is cause for impeachment, removal, and incarceration. The lives, livelihoods, and knowledge being lost here is wartime level. It's clear that we are literally under attack.
The National Science Foundation should ask the states directly for funding. If the President is willing to lose all the search and scientist to other countries the states can step in as a stopgap until the midterms. I hope we can get the House back, I don't know about the Senate.
I wonder if anyone can name just ONE thing that is currently HELPING most Americans? Just ONE. This administration does NOT care about us. From top down. Republicans are not even speaking to Democrats when they are asking questions about passing bills. They are a party of toddlers following a leader
So let me get this straight- the plan is to focus on building up a low tech factory workforce where families will work for generations while simultaneously surrendering our leadership position in technical and medical advances and this is going to lead to a new golden era for the US?
That's fine. The British will still keep advancing science, medicine and technology and selling it to you. However, it will now have a 200% tariff. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Apparently, with supposedly criminals in charge of US GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS all types of crimes will be committed against the country 🇺🇸 and "WE THE PEOPLE" daily in plain view of the 🌍🌎. Given the Congress is a rubber stamp for Trump. No SCOTUS or checks & balances anymore!
Way back in 1965, I received a NSF grant to spend the summer at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) working in the semiconductor lab with a professor and his grad student to improve the performance of transistors in computers. I also learned Fortran and Cobol and had free access to their mainframe
I had just finished my junior year in HS. It was. But Carnegie Tech also offered a summer program for HS kids in theater and other arts, and I liked hanging out with the theater kids so much, I lost interest in computers and entered Harvard the next year focusing on theater!
Wow, that all sounds great. I'm sure you're a creative person, besides being an intelligent one. Great experiences that I hope gave you joy and satisfaction. All the best to you.
Reducing the USA's role and capabilities in the areas of science and technology is surely a top aim of Mr. Putin and thus also of his creature, fascist Leader Lord Dampnut, and thus also of every conservative, Republican voter in the USA.
In the very warped”mind”of the madman tyrant,he thinks he knows better than anyone-our scientists,medical experts,etc.His greed & high opinion of himself “trumps” our health,safety,security-all if it. This mobster is already burning it all down,pretending he’s smart & decent.That will never happen.
They are, and looking to European universities,
For all maga bluster on America leading the way. America will fall behind,with the brain drain, and no one from abroad willing to go to the US, particularly if they are not white.
They should ask other countries to fund them. And make it reciprocal since Trump loves that word so much. NSF agrees to give counties that fund their research first dibs on all subsequent discoveries. A ‘Science First’ approach.
Many Americans who revere the Constitution are waiting for a landmark SCOTUS decision that would burnish the sole province of congress to curtail funding or the abolishment of a statutorily established agency.
The bad big pharmaceutical companies are not interested in cures only the maintenance of disease. If they can cure diseases, they cannot make money constantly. If you can sell insulin to patients, you get paid throughout the lifetime. Why would you wan to cure diseases? This logic seems eluded.
The American people have a right to know what the shithead president is doing with our money when everything he does is against the good of the country. He’s an evil traitor, harming millions of us on purpose.
He’s an enemy.
Insanity. Our best and brightest scientists will go to other countries for a career where they know they are appreciated and are able to advance their research. We will be left behind. It is a sick deranged policy that is being thrust on our citizens.
If they can get enough women pumping out more babies, who needs educated informed people!? Unfortunately, the USA already has a bad record for child and mothers mortality birth rates. Mentally and physically healthy people are more productive and happier - and less like to take their BS!
Straight out of the fascist playbook.
Remove the intelligent, reduce the level of education and soon enough the citizens will believe everything they’re told to be the truth and obey the orange turd.
I expect EVERY SINGLE SCIENTIST to get into the streets and RISE UP on JUNE 14TH NO KINGS DAY ‼️ORGANIZED BY INDIVISIBLE AND 50501 it will be the largest protest thus far against the Orange Nazi ‼️ Details soon to come. It's time to scare the Nazis into submission ‼️✊💪 PLEASE RE-POST 🔥
I’m a science educator/researcher and had my NSF CAREER grant terminated that supports students/teachers as climate justice action researchers. 40% of cuts came from education projects that seek to broaden access/opportunity in science. This is an attempt to gut science education/literacy in America
America is being dummied down for a reason. Authoritarian Rule is in play leading America into a Dictatorship as per Project 2025,,, a Handmaidens World.
Elon Musk only cares about his obsession with repopulation with white babies. Trump only cares about staying out of prison. Once I saw that, the rest made sense.
We are about to be the least healthy, the least educated, and the least able to retire with dignity in the industrialized world because of Trump and Republicans in Congress.
This like trump will pass. The sooner the better. It’s going to be a fight back to recover the soul of America and this time put in legislation because we can’t depend on the guard rails and being reasonable or ethical.
We need people in the sciences. We need researchers and doctors, nurses, PT, OT, etc. Everyone, absolutely everyone gets ill one time or another. Most people need medicine at least once in their lifetime. It’s crazy
Isn’t that the truth! It’s like everything they do cut back safety or well-being for us Americans. The real question will be how long will this harm last, can we get the scientist back when he’s gone?
….thinking that the bright, innovative, younger researchers will find excellent jobs and benefits in Europe..they will not come back to the US mainly because the research facilities will be to far behind and outdated….
I’m sure the Church will gladly step in and fill the gap with the 'God of the gaps'. No wonder it’s all God with Trump. The Church is running his show. They’re trying to reinsert themselves into political power. It’s as clear as day, which is why churches are allowing Trump to parade as a messiah.
It’s not just the NSF, it’s the damage done to science — and hence to the future welfare of all living things and the planet on which we live. It’s not just a political shakeup.
The GOP, the asshat’s sycophantic followers and anyone who is connected to this administration will SUFFER when they develop cancer or any serious life-threatening disease and there are no new treatments…
Anything good our nation has accomplished is being dismantled. We are losing our edge in scientific realms and our standing in the world. The abject complicity from the GOP is disquieting & patently unpatriotic, they have placed $ above country. We need a new system of gov't for us, the People💙☮️🌎
How can anyone let that happen are the Republicans in the House really trying to kill, maim and imprison anyone who doesn’t support Trump cause that’s a really big list
What is it with these right wing weirdos where we get Christian-fundamentalists attacking science and the personal privacy of academics? These ignorant fanatics presume upon our patience ..
You couldn't pick anything better than "shaken up"? How about "destroyed"? "Shattered"? "Eviscerated"? "Unconstitutionally halted"? The words you choose matter. Start conveying the urgency and severity of the fascists' violence.
My mind goes to very dark places where I imagine that all the people who will become homeless and destitute will be taken to “detention centers,” where they’ll be used for slave labor and other purposes.
Because the billionaires supporting Trump and supporting this move to authoritarian think they will gain even more power if the US people have no say in how they are governed. They will then, rape the environment, destroy the middle class, limit healthcare, demand births but offer no support.
Just systematically destroying the USA & for WHAT! Too enrich himself & wealthy friends at the expense of others. Truly Republican senators & representatives don’t give a rip about their constituents. Used all to get rich. How pathetic.
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Why is Trump destroying this pipeline? To give billionaires more tax cuts?
We don't need those scientists and PhDs anymore.
What my first buddy Dingleberry says will become the de facto science!
It's much easier to believe in conspiracy theories that make them feel smarter than to study humbly.
“What’s more, the agency now has stopped issuing any new awards and has stopped funding all existing ones”
They’re rehearsing a military coup now
7,000 ARMED MAGA Soldiers marching in D.C!
Chump plans MANY more marches on U.S. soil!
https://linktr.ee/revolution2025
NOW WE ORGANIZE STRATEGIZE FIGHT!
NOW WE ORGANIZE STRATEGIZE FIGHT!
Tell me how this isnt true…
I said what I said
For all maga bluster on America leading the way. America will fall behind,with the brain drain, and no one from abroad willing to go to the US, particularly if they are not white.
Woke . Why do they need glasses ?
No reading . Reading is woke !
This is how it will end .
Remember Pol Pot ?
Outlaw billionaires !
Enough already.
He’s an enemy.
(PS - Mother Nature don't give a F**k if you believe in science. She's gonna win no matter what.)
https://sciencebusiness.net/international-news/france-creates-platform-attract-us-and-other-disaffected-researchers
I now work for a non-US company in the US. I can transfer to Canada or EU office if things get bad enough.
I'm not going to stop trying to help patients. I'll just go somewhere else.
Remove the intelligent, reduce the level of education and soon enough the citizens will believe everything they’re told to be the truth and obey the orange turd.
Should make the MIDTERMS really interesting --- if we even HAVE a country / election left by then !!
Criminal.
(he wasn't - but we will be)
Thank you for doing the work: the factual news coverage, and the investigative journalism that goes into so many of your stories.
Nice going, Trump voters.
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The dream of a stupid and sick america.
If they were capable of that, they wouldn’t be fascists in the first place. There’s only one cure for fascism.
We must fight back.
—Trump voters 💡
How about...
NSF Decimated by Trump Attacks.
Trump.....
But military parades for the king are not. Or, $45,000 bonuses for ICE employees.