NEW: The National Cancer Institute will be a no-show this year at the the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Reearch, per internal NIH/NCI guidance dated March 4th, 2025.
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Makes me wonder if those bruises he keeps getting on his hand have something to do with this. Some people have suggested he is taking cancer treatments (NOT vetted, just things one hears.) If true, though, no research can help him now, so the heck with everyone else. That WOULD be a Trump reaction.
My dad died of cancer. This is a slap in the face of everyone who's either been touched by cancer themselves or have family members who are going through it. Fucking disgraceful.
And dump removes air quality standards - think lung disease -and allows mines to dump waste into streams without concern. Both should result in death for some people. Like we aren't already heaped in garbage. Cronies and dump hope you pay. shameful and inhumane.
Trump is destroying the medical community. The US has always been proud of the ability to find answers to complex medical issues by innovative research.Trump is destroying our research capabilities.This will cause the brightest and smartest researchers to flee to countries that support their efforts
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This is insanity. So much conversation and networking happens in the hallways between sessions and that’s where unique collaborative ideas come from.
This is not a congressional junket with tropical beaches and golf courses.
Science happens here.
Probably related to Beau, and a way to stab Biden, in the orange fartbag’s mind.
Harper in CDA (same stripe) put fwd legislation that parents of adopted kids wouldn’t be able to access some new parental benefit. The Leader of the Opposition, Stéphan Dion, had an adopted child.
Not at all. We cannot travel officially (travel freeze for 30 days starting 2/26) and have also been told we cannot attend as private citizens. Maybe some will go anyway. 🤷♀️
They can give you tasks to do in the workplace during the conference, they can call it unauthorized leave, they can make your work life a living he'll. Just for starters.
No, but we have to get approval for many private activities. I was a volunteer vaccinator for COVID and couldn’t start until approved for an “outside activity.” Same thing when I taught for a couple semesters. It’s to prove you aren’t falsely representing the government in your private life.
I wish someone would explain why Trump and Musk are intent on destroying the national scientific research establishment. Is it simply that Trump is a Russian agent, or hates intellectuals, or both?
It serves several short-term purposes: It hurts universities and educated people (both of which tend to be liberal and hate him), and it's likely part of a long term strategy to gut Federal programs, watch them fail, and use that as excuse to privatize them via [sole-source] contracts to supporters.
It's NONE of that. Trump has no clue what's happening. He gave Musk ONE job. Find enough money in cuts to pay for our billionaire tax cuts. Period.
NOW-today the Senate spent 2 hrs with Musk making it clear to him that he has NO authority to cut anything bc that's THEIR JOB (finally!). #Receipts
Trump is an idiot bent on making sure no one is smarter than him. He's even too stupid to realize intelligence and education are separate measures, and few will ever be more stupid than he is.
So, anything above his intellect — i.e. almost everything — must be shut down.
Gets even dumber when you realize they screwed up transgender with transgenic (just in case you hadn't seen the reporting on that particular f' up). Somehow even their inability to read is anti-cancer research.
This is just so ridiculous and evil. The NCI intramural program is at most a couple of percent of all the money that is spent by NCI to support labs nationwide; but I guess those people actually work in DC, so their indiscriminate slaughter serves a symbolic purpose to these motherfucking Nazis.
I worked for a non profit cancer support organization and this is such a slap in the face of all the scientists and patients that will die as a result. Trump is murdering people with his illegal edicts.
DOGE cut all travel. My husband works for fed govt and they often need to be on site for construction or design and they have been told no more travel. Basically halting a lot of projects because they need to be on site. But we can all pay for JD and his family to go ski 🙄
And we should all be delighted to pay the cost for Trump to attend the Super Bowl and spend much of his time golfing!
I’m so sorry that your husband is caught in this vise. So many things are being broken, from lives like yours to life-saving and life-enhancing projects. Love and solidarity to you.
That's what I was guessing. Trump did similar stuff in his first term, cancelling Obama-era policies that he could have just let play out and then falsely take credit for any successes, but he really is just that petty.
The irony:
#FirstFelon spotlights child cancer survivor during nationwide, televised, Congressional speech while attempting to drastically cut medical research funding, including cancer...
A judge has temporarily blocked this...
Meanwhile, #FirstFelon still enjoys spending to golf. #DOGE
If they reduce their reliance on the feds drug and treatment prices will explode. Federal funding helps control those costs. I agree they can do a better job of divvying up the pie but letting corporations run amuck would be disastrous.
I think it’s worse than that. This research simply won’t happen without federal money. PhRMA will not fill the gap even tho as you say prices would go up a lot.
If you let all drug development and research be market-driven, you end up with a million variations of Viagra, and none for those less profitable conditions that affect fewer people, or for those which don't have obvious treatment mechanisms yet.
This is insanity and it will affect the lives and until millions my wife just died of cancer. This is an attack on the American public not to mention the world population. Penny anyone that voted for Trump and his minions is aiding and abetting this abomination.
Can’t some of these agencies push back and show up to the meetings or at least zoom in these guidelines are against their own policies and our laws stop obeying we have to put sand in the gear every single place we can Rage Against The Machine!
No that is not true
Poverty is an important risk factor for cancer. While a few cancers are overrepresented in people of north European descent, an effect of UV exposure, overall cancer outcomes are worse for Black people, an effect of generations of stigma and discrimination.
Wow. Hope this policy is rescinded in time. I’m so tired of MAGA wasting the tax money I’ve proudly spent on science over the past 50 years of my life.
JFK Jr is bound and determined to take our Healthcare back to the middle ages. We're going to be applying leeches to treat diseases because he's destroying what he doesn't understand.
You gotta understand…there is going to be an all-out war declared here in blue state cities by our fascist regime, so cancer will be a nonissue. Something else is going to kill us all soon.
Sure, they’d rather give billionaires tax cuts than fund cancer research. Billionaires can pay for the best cancer care for THEIR loved ones regardless of the location.
It didn't help Steve Jobs. Many cancers were death sentences and now are potentially curable thanks to research. You can't treat cancers that have not yet been curable thanks to research if it is ended.
Agree that all the money in the world won’t help some but my husband has multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer, and his life has been extended thanks to research and the development of many new treatments including CAR T cell therapy.
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This is not a congressional junket with tropical beaches and golf courses.
Science happens here.
How in hell can Trump do this???
Harper in CDA (same stripe) put fwd legislation that parents of adopted kids wouldn’t be able to access some new parental benefit. The Leader of the Opposition, Stéphan Dion, had an adopted child.
Cruel to be cruel.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/nih-indirect-costs-lawsuit-federal-judge-extends-order-blocking-trump-cuts/
Our society has been poorly educated on this.
And there’s extremely few companies with the budget or interest in running a real research facility …
Many would see the strangling of much medical research as a feature, not a bug, because disease hits the old and poor first.
As for the poor and weak and stupid, they just need to die off as quickly as possible to stop using their precious resources.
NOW-today the Senate spent 2 hrs with Musk making it clear to him that he has NO authority to cut anything bc that's THEIR JOB (finally!). #Receipts
So, anything above his intellect — i.e. almost everything — must be shut down.
& land management
NOAA's wetland mgmt
foreign studies with
"obscure topics"
etc
they are attacking
medical research
in every back-channel way
they can
I think they strategize
that by throttling science,
they personally can profit
& claim a prize for discovery
the research funding
is all corrupt
- linking it to collusion w/
Big Pharma:
& how they want to keep it
"unsolved"
for profit
& milking the budget
for
I guess, in their conclusion
- some personal glee
"...& it's all unnecessary..."
Would be horrible if he got cancer & no one wanted to give him care
I’m so sorry that your husband is caught in this vise. So many things are being broken, from lives like yours to life-saving and life-enhancing projects. Love and solidarity to you.
Trump is pure evil.
And as a mom who lost her 9 year old son to brain cancer, I just want to ask that girl’s mother: “are you really that stupid?”
#FirstFelon spotlights child cancer survivor during nationwide, televised, Congressional speech while attempting to drastically cut medical research funding, including cancer...
A judge has temporarily blocked this...
Meanwhile, #FirstFelon still enjoys spending to golf. #DOGE
Some cancers like mine, the only place I can go it to the feds. There is not one clinical trial that is not funded with federal dollars.
CANCER IS INDISCRIMINATE AND DOES NOT CHOOSE SIDES. RED OR BLUE. IT CHOOSES BOTH, EQUALLY.
Poverty is an important risk factor for cancer. While a few cancers are overrepresented in people of north European descent, an effect of UV exposure, overall cancer outcomes are worse for Black people, an effect of generations of stigma and discrimination.