NIH Budget Cuts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NIH does crucial work but there's a lot of fat. I could cut the budget 10% today, 10% if I worked a while on it.

Please tell us exactly what you would cut. Inquiring minds would like to know.

Not PP, but: every IC has an IT shop, and there is also the central IT, and collectively they are an inefficient, overblown, uncoordinated monstrosity. Both IT contractors and Feds are paid on par or better than scientists and medical staff.

Then shouldn't things like that be the focus? How does a blanket cut help?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NIH does crucial work but there's a lot of fat. I could cut the budget 10% today, 10% if I worked a while on it.

Please tell us exactly what you would cut. Inquiring minds would like to know.

Not PP, but: every IC has an IT shop, and there is also the central IT, and collectively they are an inefficient, overblown, uncoordinated monstrosity. Both IT contractors and Feds are paid on par or better than scientists and medical staff.

Then shouldn't things like that be the focus? How does a blanket cut help?

You think trump has any understanding of the NIH? He probably thinks it's a bookstore about mice called NIHM.

Besides, it's clearly showmanship. Cut all the soft stuff, build more guns, America fuck yea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NIH does crucial work but there's a lot of fat. I could cut the budget 10% today, 10% if I worked a while on it.

Please tell us exactly what you would cut. Inquiring minds would like to know.

Not PP, but: every IC has an IT shop, and there is also the central IT, and collectively they are an inefficient, overblown, uncoordinated monstrosity. Both IT contractors and Feds are paid on par or better than scientists and medical staff.

Then shouldn't things like that be the focus? How does a blanket cut help?

That should be a focus all the time, internally. Why wait for thumsbscrews to address inefficiencies?

[Anonymous]

i would cut all lifestyle research - eating, breastfeeding and the like. it's worthless - driven by fads and reversed every few years. not sure if that would save much money but just not having that crap around would be a benefit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NIH does crucial work but there's a lot of fat. I could cut the budget 10% today, 10% if I worked a while on it.

Please tell us exactly what you would cut. Inquiring minds would like to know.

Not PP, but: every IC has an IT shop, and there is also the central IT, and collectively they are an inefficient, overblown, uncoordinated monstrosity. Both IT contractors and Feds are paid on par or better than scientists and medical staff.

I'm not sure this budget cut would affect contractors

[Anonymous]

The cuts are going to mean that less research grants will be awarded, that has been the case ever since 2001 or so, when Bush made significant cuts to thr NIh budget,

[Anonymous]

Funding for research grants from most of the NIH institutes is down to 5-10% of grants submitted. Many highly talented researchers with the potential to contribute major advances to science are already closing their research labs and finding new careers. Others who have been able to hold on are spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting their already outstanding grant applications to get into the funding range. This results in significant slowing down of their research programs.

Science and technical advancement in the US will soon be eclipsed by research in other countries (e.g. China) where funding is more generous. The US is loosing the competitive edge and any further reduction in the NIH budget will make this happen even faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funding for research grants from most of the NIH institutes is down to 5-10% of grants submitted. Many highly talented researchers with the potential to contribute major advances to science are already closing their research labs and finding new careers. Others who have been able to hold on are spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting their already outstanding grant applications to get into the funding range. This results in significant slowing down of their research programs.

Science and technical advancement in the US will soon be eclipsed by research in other countries (e.g. China) where funding is more generous. The US is loosing the competitive edge and any further reduction in the NIH budget will make this happen even faster.

and yet... so much research turns out to be garbage. cancer research using compromised cell lines. decades of research in social psychology crumbling before our eyes, neuroscience research widely inflated using incorrect statistics... and that's just stuff that has been checked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NIH does crucial work but there's a lot of fat. I could cut the budget 10% today, 10% if I worked a while on it.

Please tell us exactly what you would cut. Inquiring minds would like to know.

Not PP, but: every IC has an IT shop, and there is also the central IT, and collectively they are an inefficient, overblown, uncoordinated monstrosity. Both IT contractors and Feds are paid on par or better than scientists and medical staff.

Then shouldn't things like that be the focus? How does a blanket cut help?

That should be a focus all the time, internally. Why wait for thumsbscrews to address inefficiencies?

Again, why are the standards different for the DoD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funding for research grants from most of the NIH institutes is down to 5-10% of grants submitted. Many highly talented researchers with the potential to contribute major advances to science are already closing their research labs and finding new careers. Others who have been able to hold on are spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting their already outstanding grant applications to get into the funding range. This results in significant slowing down of their research programs.

Science and technical advancement in the US will soon be eclipsed by research in other countries (e.g. China) where funding is more generous. The US is loosing the competitive edge and any further reduction in the NIH budget will make this happen even faster.

and yet... so much research turns out to be garbage. cancer research using compromised cell lines. decades of research in social psychology crumbling before our eyes, neuroscience research widely inflated using incorrect statistics... and that's just stuff that has been checked.

Are you a scientist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funding for research grants from most of the NIH institutes is down to 5-10% of grants submitted. Many highly talented researchers with the potential to contribute major advances to science are already closing their research labs and finding new careers. Others who have been able to hold on are spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting their already outstanding grant applications to get into the funding range. This results in significant slowing down of their research programs.

Science and technical advancement in the US will soon be eclipsed by research in other countries (e.g. China) where funding is more generous. The US is loosing the competitive edge and any further reduction in the NIH budget will make this happen even faster.

and yet... so much research turns out to be garbage. cancer research using compromised cell lines. decades of research in social psychology crumbling before our eyes, neuroscience research widely inflated using incorrect statistics... and that's just stuff that has been checked.

Are you a scientist?

yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funding for research grants from most of the NIH institutes is down to 5-10% of grants submitted. Many highly talented researchers with the potential to contribute major advances to science are already closing their research labs and finding new careers. Others who have been able to hold on are spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting their already outstanding grant applications to get into the funding range. This results in significant slowing down of their research programs.

Science and technical advancement in the US will soon be eclipsed by research in other countries (e.g. China) where funding is more generous. The US is loosing the competitive edge and any further reduction in the NIH budget will make this happen even faster.

+1 Yes this is so true, on both counts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funding for research grants from most of the NIH institutes is down to 5-10% of grants submitted. Many highly talented researchers with the potential to contribute major advances to science are already closing their research labs and finding new careers. Others who have been able to hold on are spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting their already outstanding grant applications to get into the funding range. This results in significant slowing down of their research programs.

Science and technical advancement in the US will soon be eclipsed by research in other countries (e.g. China) where funding is more generous. The US is loosing the competitive edge and any further reduction in the NIH budget will make this happen even faster.

and yet... so much research turns out to be garbage. cancer research using compromised cell lines. decades of research in social psychology crumbling before our eyes, neuroscience research widely inflated using incorrect statistics... and that's just stuff that has been checked.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funding for research grants from most of the NIH institutes is down to 5-10% of grants submitted. Many highly talented researchers with the potential to contribute major advances to science are already closing their research labs and finding new careers. Others who have been able to hold on are spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting their already outstanding grant applications to get into the funding range. This results in significant slowing down of their research programs.

Science and technical advancement in the US will soon be eclipsed by research in other countries (e.g. China) where funding is more generous. The US is loosing the competitive edge and any further reduction in the NIH budget will make this happen even faster.

and yet... so much research turns out to be garbage. cancer research using compromised cell lines. decades of research in social psychology crumbling before our eyes, neuroscience research widely inflated using incorrect statistics... and that's just stuff that has been checked.

Are you a scientist?

yes

Then you should know better that plenty of worthwhile research gets done through the NIH. Anyone can cherry-pick wasteful examples in each field. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is the solution?

[Anonymous]

Let market forces dictate this