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A vaccine??
Call it something else.
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That is DEI in reverse
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Being world-class at science is also critical to national security. If the US wants to secure its semiconductor supply chain, if it wants to prepare the military for climate change, if it wants to prevent the next pandemic, it needs top scientists. 7/
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But it’s not just about the money. The government helps attract the best minds to the US. It helps the best minds in the US go safely overseas to do field work. It brokers agreements to foster international science collaboration. It tracks and aggregates data to support life-saving research. 5/
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Government funds account for more than *half* the R&D budget that US universities spend each year—in 2023, that was $60B out of $109B. The gov also does a lot of its own research at national labs like Oak Ridge & Los Alamos and agencies like NOAA and DoD.
What are the returns on that investment? 3/
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3. There have already been randomized controlled trials of every vaccine on the schedule. The people receiving these vaccines were undoubtedly vaccinated against other diseases already. So the claims that there may be some weird interactions are nonsense.