It took since 1887 to build up the greatest biomedical research apparatus in the world. It’ll take a few ignorant dickheads a few months to tear its heart out. - ThreadSky

davelevitan.bsky.social • 5 days ago

It took since 1887 to build up the greatest biomedical research apparatus in the world. It’ll take a few ignorant dickheads a few months to tear its heart out.

Reposted from Dave Levitan

Per a source (and similar post on Reddit, fwiw), NIH RIF plan may centralize and cut the number of institutes and centers by around half.

“This is the end of NIH as we know it.”

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vtroy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Who weren’t elected.

rawfitz65.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's a damn shame we are losing an institution that made most of us proud, and all of us safer and healthier.

clccw.bsky.social•5 days ago

Why why why are they doing this?

tealdeer.bsky.social•5 days ago

A lot of it's ideological. They don't think the government should be doing good things that help people. If it's worth doing, someone in the private sector will do it and make a bunch of profit from it. So Sayeth the Gospel of the Free Market

weedenkim.bsky.social•4 days ago

Same for education research.

Heartbreaking.

scassian.bsky.social•5 days ago

Look, everyone knows that when the whole population is eating roadkill bear cubs and drinking raw milk there will be no need for medical research.

santinimore.bsky.social•4 days ago

And most of the assholes that voted for trump are too dumb to understand what they will be losing.🤦🏽‍♀️

resurgequality.bsky.social•4 days ago

If thats true, short-sightedness is a fault everyone in the room suffers from.

mojavesmom.bsky.social•4 days ago

“Make America Great Again.” 😩

brandostarkey.bsky.social•5 days ago

People who loathe America would do the same things this crowd is doing.

welshrarebit.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s still hard to work out why they’re doing this. Is it antivax gone mad?

georgiabluedevil.bsky.social•5 days ago

They want serfs.

risingson2.bsky.social•5 days ago

out of spite. Like really, they hate it. They hate science as it does things as prove global warming, they hate people who contradict their ideals on economy, society, growth or ethics.

welshrarebit.bsky.social•5 days ago

That’s as good an explanation as any.

xybutch.bsky.social•5 days ago

Going forward we'll need to start marking Trump 47 at 2025 on graphs in addition to Reagan at 1981.

https://daughternumberthree.blogspot.com/2020/01/graphing-reagan.html

levecque17.bsky.social•4 days ago

In Germany rocket scientists fled to come here and we got to the moon first.

helpus24.bsky.social•4 days ago

What are we going to do—sit down and take it?

tweetyninja.bsky.social•4 days ago

Taking away a key competitive advantage of our country.

connokj.bsky.social•4 days ago

The Dark Ages ... Here we come

susansc.bsky.social•4 days ago

And decades to repair it, if we're lucky.

richlevine6.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reason #9058 why we shouldn’t elect ignorant dickheads anywhere, but particularly into high positions in the federal government.

kellylmaki.bsky.social•5 days ago

😢
And Pam Bondi is hard at work protecting Tesla dealerships.

grippeminaud.bsky.social•4 days ago

hopefully Europe or China can recruit the scientists and carry on with the research

jim0novak.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s almost as if having a unitary executive with tyrannical powers to radically change the country in a moment was not the desired constitutional order of the conservative founders of the country. 🧐

defund-and-abolish.bsky.social•4 days ago

Huh.

dougom.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’ve said it repeatedly: They want to take us back to the 1850s. Hell, Kennedy probably doesn’t believe in germ theory.

zen1den.bsky.social•5 days ago

Theyre putting USG smarts on the street so Private Equity can scoop them up; exploit their knowledge & sell that US intellectual property back to citizens at a 1000% markup.

anganastasakis.bsky.social•5 days ago

Every day it’s just another assault on the soul of our country.
F

datadrivenbeltway.bsky.social•4 days ago

We need to fight back, but posting on BlueSky isn't fighting back. We must do much much more. Find GOP congressional districts that will lose jobs and bombard those folks, etc.

weremensh.bsky.social•5 days ago

Be fair. The Republicans have been doing this since 1964. This is just the end game.

agnathra.bsky.social•5 days ago

To be fair, they probably can’t find enough anti vaxxers and crystal chargers to run more offices

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