The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research
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The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research
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Re: The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research
#2there is one single person who is driving 99% of the damage
Russell Vought
everyone knows who Stephen Miller is but Russell Vought is the real monster
for perspective, he got rid of the very programs that developed a drug to keep his child alive from a rare genetically inherited disease
now you get what we are dealing with
and here's the thing, Vance is the handpicked successor by Heritage Foundation so even if Trump goes away someday, the nightmare will continue if not get even worse
might take a century to recover, I don't see how this is overcome in a mere decade
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#3When you see Chinese emerging AI dominance, you can’t help but connect it to the administrations hostility to immigration and research.
We should be attracting and retaining the world’s top researchers, not driving them away with dysfunction and xenophobia.
In the past it’d be hard for Chinese labs to retain researchers. Now the upside to the US isn’t there.
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#4there is one single person who is driving 99% of the damage Russell Vought everyone knows who Stephen Miller is but Russell Vought is the real monster for perspective, he got rid of the very programs that developed a drug to keep his child alive from a rare genetically inherited disease now you get what we are dealing with and here's the thing, Vance is the handpicked successor by Heritage Foundation so even if Trump…
Also the courts that let him get away with it.
That said Congress can and does sometimes make the funding less discretionary. They can mandate expenditures. And make withholding legal funds personally painful for OMB. They also haven’t don’t this yet.
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#5there is one single person who is driving 99% of the damage Russell Vought everyone knows who Stephen Miller is but Russell Vought is the real monster for perspective, he got rid of the very programs that developed a drug to keep his child alive from a rare genetically inherited disease now you get what we are dealing with and here's the thing, Vance is the handpicked successor by Heritage Foundation so even if Trump…
The Republicans are either going to get absolutely shellacked, in which case a lot of this stuff is going to get rolled back, or we're going to end up with an autocracy, in which case shit is going to get much worse.
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#6How is that different from forcing dei before? To me, it seems that the Trump administration is doing the same thing as previous administrations, just more openly.
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#7Ive worked in federally funded instituions.
The places I worked were essentially white collar welfare.
One could do nothing and collect a paycheck.
Not saying all federally finded places are like this but this system is ripe for abuse and I dont know how you elimiate the abuse while still giving the deserving scientists the funding they need.
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#8comments on this at MR are brutal
it's one at the top like 'maybe you guys shouldn't have built a network to launder chuds huh' followed by like 50 chuds defending the funding cuts because of DEI keywords in the grants
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#9there is one single person who is driving 99% of the damage Russell Vought everyone knows who Stephen Miller is but Russell Vought is the real monster for perspective, he got rid of the very programs that developed a drug to keep his child alive from a rare genetically inherited disease now you get what we are dealing with and here's the thing, Vance is the handpicked successor by Heritage Foundation so even if Trump…
The Republicans are either going to get absolutely shellacked, in which case a lot of this stuff is going to get rolled back, or we're going to end up with an autocracy, in which case shit is going to get much worse.
Even in the first option, it is so much easier to destroy something than to build it. This is causing damage that will take a generation to reverse. Why would any foreign students choose to study here if we’re one election from deporting them and banning them from working here?
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