The thing is “cancer research” is *incredibly* popular. Everyone knows people with cancer. This is slam dunk shit. - ThreadSky

davelevitan.bsky.social • 31 days ago

The thing is “cancer research” is *incredibly* popular. Everyone knows people with cancer. This is slam dunk shit.

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

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optimisticpainter.bsky.social•30 days ago

The party that doesn't believe in evolution sure is keen on the worst interpretation of "survival if the fittest".

velvetpage.bsky.social•30 days ago

Every single person in that department needs to call journalists at any outlet that will listen to them, starting with the ones based outside the US. Don't comply. Don't lie down and die. That's what they're counting on.

velvetpage.bsky.social•30 days ago

And, manuscripts can be submitted for publication outside the NIH. Trump has no control over the New England Journal of Medicine. Don't let them silence you because that's not the way your contract says to do it. Trump just voided the contract.

skolgonzo.bsky.social•30 days ago

Take it away. Bring it back. He’s the hero. All the while taking pot shots at Biden & Fauci. Create a bunch of chaos along the way.

He’s a flat character. The only glitches flare up when his ego is bruised, which, given the state of journalism in this country, is not really a concern.

babsallday.bsky.social•30 days ago

they don't need votes anymore

zmcadler.bsky.social•30 days ago

Why is all this happening *now*? RFK Jr. has not been confirmed, and neither have any other Trump appointees in or around the NIH afaik

zmcadler.bsky.social•30 days ago

Guys I mean logistically. I know why they want to do all this shit but literally how is it happening without Trump’s people in charge

velvetpage.bsky.social•30 days ago

By executive order, counting on people to comply in advance.

zeldaqueen.bsky.social•30 days ago

I think they're hamstring as much of the federal government as they can. From what I understand, Vance follows a belief that democracies don't work and the federal government should be dismantled in favor of running the country like a CEO.

zmcadler.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes but logistically, how are they able to do it without Trump’s appointees in charge? Who’s forcing it to happen?

zeldaqueen.bsky.social•30 days ago

Well, Step 1 seems to be replacing as many federal employees as possible with like-minded people to work towards it.

It's not a plan that would go well, mind you. Just that it's what they want.

nentuaby.space•30 days ago

It's a grudge. A lot of NIH-funded research served to really show how disastrous his handling of COVID-19 was. This is just pretty office politics on a national scale, with our lives.

zmcadler.bsky.social•30 days ago

But who’s directing the NIH to do all this without a single appointment from the new administration? I know why Trump wants to stop science from happening, but how is he able to do it without his own people running the place yet?

nentuaby.space•30 days ago

Oh, he sent them an executive order directly. There are complications with the president's authority over various departments of the executive branch with cabinet secretaries and the like having some reserved powers, but ultimately the president IS their grand-boss.

nentuaby.space•30 days ago

One of his dirty little tactics is actually deliberately failing to appoint certain positions, so that people who could contradict his orders just... Aren't there.

tyrotcm.bsky.social•30 days ago

They've been working up to this for a long time.

zmcadler.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes but you need Trump sycophants to do it. None of these have been installed at NIH yet, so how is it happening without them? Who’s giving the orders to do all this?

milesnaismith.bsky.social•30 days ago

The President is issuing Executive Orders.

agpasquella.bsky.social•30 days ago

Here’s the message, Democrats:

“Republicans are killing cancer patients.”

Repeat 1,000,000X for the next four years.

slschendel.bsky.social•30 days ago

I've done research on both cancer and infectious disease. People were always more excited about the cancer research, even though the infectious disease research was more likely to affect them and millions more around the world.

michelecollins5411.bsky.social•30 days ago

Turnip supporters will have no idea this has happened. Even if it affects someone they love, they will explain it away as a one-off. "Maybe he didn't file his paperwork properly" or, more likely, "They are giving care to Black people instead of me because they're woke doctors."

cathiusca.bsky.social•30 days ago

They’re also convinced that cancer research is fake, that doctors know the “real” cure and are hiding it to make money, etc.

michelecollins5411.bsky.social•30 days ago

they are going to get so many people killed.

studentsdemocracy.bsky.social•30 days ago

https://ahrp.org/1932-1945-doctors-academics-perverted-medicine-science-in-nazi-germany/

studentsdemocracy.bsky.social•30 days ago

hereforcake.bsky.social•31 days ago

Popularity or lack there of doesn't matter if we won't need to ever vote again.

sorocchungus.bsky.social•30 days ago

I work for a hospital that is going for special recognition/funding (NCI Designation) from the NCI and lmao we are never getting it because their money is tied up and they can’t talk to anybody.

This sucks

tyrotcm.bsky.social•30 days ago

This is going to go so badly

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