NIH in limbo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RFK has said he would gut 600 employees at NIH. Wonder which roles they will be with over 18k employees.

Start with Tony’s ass kissers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have been notified that we can no longer purchase lab supplies. I have enough materials for the next 3 or so weeks, but then I'll have to start ramping down my lab work.

I know someone who's years into a mouse experiment and if they just end it, they'll have lost years of work. Just setting money on fire.

Then they can get private funders to support their oh so important research. Should not be a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NSF mass layoffs, is NIH next. What positions will be affected?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/science-funding-agency-layoffs-threat-00202426

Politico just lost their 8 million dollars in funding they were receiving from USAID. Might not be the most unbiased source to get information, obviously. Not like this has not always been the case with Politico, at least it's truly out there now. 8 million dollars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have been notified that we can no longer purchase lab supplies. I have enough materials for the next 3 or so weeks, but then I'll have to start ramping down my lab work.

I know someone who's years into a mouse experiment and if they just end it, they'll have lost years of work. Just setting money on fire.

Then they can get private funders to support their oh so important research. Should not be a problem.

Yikes you are such a dumb dumb!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NSF mass layoffs, is NIH next. What positions will be affected?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/science-funding-agency-layoffs-threat-00202426

Politico just lost their 8 million dollars in funding they were receiving from USAID. Might not be the most unbiased source to get information, obviously. Not like this has not always been the case with Politico, at least it's truly out there now. 8 million dollars.

This is false. The 8 million to Politico is from the entirety of the US Govt, over the span of several years, including when Trump was President before. It covers the pro subscription - more explanation here.

https://x.com/Ike_Saul/status/1887180835117216196

Politico is not being funneled cash by USAID.

Politico has a very expensive pro subscription that is an entire platform for tracking legislation, votes, lawsuits, reporting, and elite legislative analysis.

These subscriptions cost north of $10,000. Private sector CEOs and lobbyists pay for them. As do government workers. I’ve subscribed and use them before. They are amazing tools for keeping an eye on the government.

Politico sells these premium trade pubs to agencies. Duh. Govt agencies (like the private sector) want to work on the best info available. They (meaning CEOs and private corporations and the govt) wouldn’t pay if Politico wasn’t providing value.

Forcing the cancellation of these subscriptions is anti capitalist nonsense that is gonna make our government dumber, not smarter.

But more importantly - it isn’t some massive corrupt scheme. Politico does invaluable reporting in these trade pubs, so people pay.

A bunch of people looked at these expenses and thought they uncovered a massive scandal of “donations” or “funding” when really they discovered a success 10+ year old trade publication.

A bunch of conservative writers who work at subscription based publications are claiming this is some conflict of interest, yet they all write articles every day about people who subscribe to their work. I do this too at Tangle - it’s not a conflict of interest to write about people who pay to access your writing!

Please just spend 30 seconds thinking critically before swallowing all this stuff whole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NSF mass layoffs, is NIH next. What positions will be affected?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/science-funding-agency-layoffs-threat-00202426

Politico just lost their 8 million dollars in funding they were receiving from USAID. Might not be the most unbiased source to get information, obviously. Not like this has not always been the case with Politico, at least it's truly out there now. 8 million dollars.

Who exactly authorized Politico to be taking my tax dollars? On what basis?

This is debunked just above you. The government was paying subscription fees to Politico for using their resources. No grant money changed hands.

[Anonymous]

Heard Politico can’t pay its workers right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My husband, holding an MD and PhD degree, worked on cancer research at the NIH for many years. Not one dollar of taxpayer money did he waste.

To all the MAGA morons out there, once you get diagnosed with cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, are you going to regret decapitating the largest and most productive research institute on the planet???? Do you want your children to suffer from the same diseases you have, at the same level of (inadequate) treatments, instead of benefiting from advances in medicine???? Don't you want to see drug discoveries that extend cancer survival from 5 years to 20 years???? Don't you want to see new ways to treat Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases???????




It all starts with NIH grants and NIH research.

Unfortunately NIH wasted tons of money based on fraudulent Alzheimer’s research, and denied funds for alternate research bc they went all in on amyloid plaque.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NSF mass layoffs, is NIH next. What positions will be affected?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/science-funding-agency-layoffs-threat-00202426

Politico just lost their 8 million dollars in funding they were receiving from USAID. Might not be the most unbiased source to get information, obviously. Not like this has not always been the case with Politico, at least it's truly out there now. 8 million dollars.

This is false. The 8 million to Politico is from the entirety of the US Govt, over the span of several years, including when Trump was President before. It covers the pro subscription - more explanation here.

https://x.com/Ike_Saul/status/1887180835117216196

Politico is not being funneled cash by USAID.

Politico has a very expensive pro subscription that is an entire platform for tracking legislation, votes, lawsuits, reporting, and elite legislative analysis.

These subscriptions cost north of $10,000. Private sector CEOs and lobbyists pay for them. As do government workers. I’ve subscribed and use them before. They are amazing tools for keeping an eye on the government.

Politico sells these premium trade pubs to agencies. Duh. Govt agencies (like the private sector) want to work on the best info available. They (meaning CEOs and private corporations and the govt) wouldn’t pay if Politico wasn’t providing value.

Forcing the cancellation of these subscriptions is anti capitalist nonsense that is gonna make our government dumber, not smarter.

But more importantly - it isn’t some massive corrupt scheme. Politico does invaluable reporting in these trade pubs, so people pay.

A bunch of people looked at these expenses and thought they uncovered a massive scandal of “donations” or “funding” when really they discovered a success 10+ year old trade publication.

A bunch of conservative writers who work at subscription based publications are claiming this is some conflict of interest, yet they all write articles every day about people who subscribe to their work. I do this too at Tangle - it’s not a conflict of interest to write about people who pay to access your writing!

Please just spend 30 seconds thinking critically before swallowing all this stuff whole.

+1. USAID in total spent $44K in subscription fees, not $8 million.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heard Politico can’t pay its workers right now.

Not true. It was an administrative error that the right wing media has spun into a crazy conspiracy theory. The government money that went to Politico was for subscriptions that their employees used to DO THEIR JOBS. When I worked at government agency, we paid for a number of industry related subscriptions from places such as Congressional Quarterly and National Journal. These types of subscriptions are extremely costly across the board. So just calm down. There is nothing to see here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NSF mass layoffs, is NIH next. What positions will be affected?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/science-funding-agency-layoffs-threat-00202426

Politico just lost their 8 million dollars in funding they were receiving from USAID. Might not be the most unbiased source to get information, obviously. Not like this has not always been the case with Politico, at least it's truly out there now. 8 million dollars.

Cite?

[Anonymous]

I don't get it why NIH needs so many employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RFK has said he would gut 600 employees at NIH. Wonder which roles they will be with over 18k employees.

Start with Tony’s ass kissers.

I know an ER doctor at GW hospital who did their residency under Dr. Fauci at the clinical center of the NIH campus. He trained so many people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My husband, holding an MD and PhD degree, worked on cancer research at the NIH for many years. Not one dollar of taxpayer money did he waste.

To all the MAGA morons out there, once you get diagnosed with cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, are you going to regret decapitating the largest and most productive research institute on the planet???? Do you want your children to suffer from the same diseases you have, at the same level of (inadequate) treatments, instead of benefiting from advances in medicine???? Don't you want to see drug discoveries that extend cancer survival from 5 years to 20 years???? Don't you want to see new ways to treat Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases???????




It all starts with NIH grants and NIH research.

👏🏽

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it why NIH needs so many employees.

It is a good thing that you did not pursue a career in science. The ability to do research on a topic along with critical thinking skills are essential.