NIH in limbo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Welcome to the world of AI. Feel sorry for you.

[Anonymous]

I wish the national news was covering the NIH stuff more. Lots of R voters have family members with cancer or kids with awful diseases. They did not vote for ending medical research. Please journalists cover this instead of the DEI stuff and the immigration stuff. Let’s win the battles we can win.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why get rid of some many people? The current staff can just act on the new policies and initiative implemented by the new administration. That has always been done in the past, but it's a new era now I guess.

They want to install their cronies.

They want to be corrupt. Google "state capture."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:he will outsource most of the in-house R&D and other work.

That will be very hard to do. Industry benefits from the long, hard, risky R&D that is done by NIH and NIH-funded labs. They don't do this work for a good reason - it is hard to profit off of this phase of basic research and preclinical development. In short, I don't see him being successful in getting industry on board with this.

He doesn't care about getting industry on board. They are merely destroying the federal government structure.

This is not about dei or saving money or fraud. It's about capturing the state, our country, for their own use and profit.

TLDR: It's a takeover.

[Anonymous]

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

You're like Musk's Peter Thiel boy coder group. You don't understand the entirety of what NIH does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Welcome to the world of AI. Feel sorry for you.

AI cannot do everything that scientists do. You just proved my point about lack of knowledge and critical thinking skills. I feel sorry for you. I can't imagine being so stupid. You should be embarrassed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why get rid of some many people? The current staff can just act on the new policies and initiative implemented by the new administration. That has always been done in the past, but it's a new era now I guess.

They want to install their cronies.

They want to be corrupt. Google "state capture."

I have been putting this in every thread I can. State Capture. We need to repeat this over and over and until people stop arguing about mundane things like this is going to blow over.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is correct. I work for a media organization that also sells group subscriptions to the federal government and we are terrified that someone will find the line item and call us out on social media. Again, these are just group subscriptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Welcome to the world of AI. Feel sorry for you.

AI cannot do everything that scientists do. You just proved my point about lack of knowledge and critical thinking skills. I feel sorry for you. I can't imagine being so stupid. You should be embarrassed.

I can’t wait to see you get fired soon. lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Welcome to the world of AI. Feel sorry for you.

AI cannot do everything that scientists do. You just proved my point about lack of knowledge and critical thinking skills. I feel sorry for you. I can't imagine being so stupid. You should be embarrassed.

I can’t wait to see you get fired soon. lol

What kind of person would say this to a stranger? You need serious help. Or maybe not to be interacting with others.

[Anonymous]

The National Advisory General Medical Sciences advises that it's council meeting scheduled for TODAY has been postponed. It's the second largest institute at the NIH. Many grants now will go unrewarded. NIGMS has supported the work of 97 Nobel laureates.

https://x.com/samstein/status/1887498448615743914

[Anonymous]

Is DOGE at NIH? Anyone know?

[Anonymous]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-preparing-order-cut-thousands-federal-health-workers-wsj-reports-2025-02-06/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is DOGE at NIH? Anyone know?

Sam Stein yesterday afternoon tweeted (X’ed?) that reports were DOGE staffers were at NIH.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just a lowly lab worker. I was told we would be able to start purchasing again today, but now being told we need White House approval? Can someone higher up explain the situation? I'm going through expired supplies but don't know what to do when those are gone.

Talk to your AO or supervisor. It is confusing and some items need higher approval, but your AO or Supervisor should be able to help you.

Nope, still can't order supplies. Heard that ordering varies by institute.