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I know I may get some flack for this. But IMO, you shouldn't make waves when you are a VISA guest in another country. It's just a bad idea all around. There's every reason to actively avoid getting politically involved. While I realize that US higher education is particularly motivated towards activism, protests and the like. Historically accepting even foreign nationals in such activity. It's still just a bad idea f…
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That absolutely is a controversial opinion. The prohibition against government reprisal for speech acts is the first thing in the Bill of Rights! That’s one of the genuinely exceptional things about the U.S., or at least it was until we broke it.
A lot of privileges/rights are limited to citizens in the US in different ways. Why would any government welcome a subversive, foreign influence? Should it be any surprise that the result is similar to what happens when a spy is caught?
To be clear, here is the rest of what the article title should be... > ...for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment
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When you write comments like this, you are literally begging people to take the other side of your argument, which will inevitably have less to do with the technical details of why TB treatments are first-line therapies for bladder cancer and more to do with the First Amendment and visa protections. It's a way of having exactly the same tedious argument on every story, no matter what the story is about.
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1) Why would companies pay for basic research? They used to get that research for free. 2) Very few schools have endowments that are large enough to support current faculty research costs; even Harvard can only support all research off their endowment for about a year. 3) Endowments are now taxed, so they will have even less available for research.
1) Because ROI on that investment is still positive, even if it used to be “free”. 2) Endowments aren’t the only way to fund research, and not all research is equally valuable. Some is probably negative value, given the replication crisis. 3) Investment income from the endowment is taxed at a maximum of 8%. If that’s enough to break the US university research machine, I’m not sure it was ever working in the first pla…
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A lot of privileges/rights are limited to citizens in the US in different ways. Why would any government welcome a subversive, foreign influence? Should it be any surprise that the result is similar to what happens when a spy is caught?
The first amendment is NOT limited to citizens in the US. It just isn't. Why would it be? Free speech, free press, and freedom of religion applies to everybody.
"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences."
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Ultimately that's one reason why the US got the atomic bomb and not the Nazis. Ironic.
Realistically speaking, Germany was never on track to produce atomic weapons before their war economy was obliterated by the allies. The program was not taken seriously or had proper investment. The war machine was already severely starved of resources prior to their even more significant land losses in 1944. I honestly can’t even think of an alternate (realistic) timeline where they achieve a delivery system for ato…
The Germans also spent so much money on so many absurd things that had they simply directed it more precisely to the bomb at an earlier time, cost at least wouldn't have been a limitation. Even as things stand historically, they created a number of completely cutting-edge weapons despite all the catastrophic problems you describe, so much so that the US, USSR and UK all spent years after the war, largely cribbing off what the Nazis' R&D had already developed to some extent.
I really wish this was available earlier, because I just lost a family member to bladder cancer yesterday morning. :(