
It's impossible to get off the Dana Farber mailing list after making a donation in someone's memory. |
Because your state decided to have one or more public universities. Likewise, the Federal Government funds research at public universities to ensure that there is a level playing field with private universities. Harvard seems to have decided it can fund its own research, which it can. |
Great! Let other institutions have our taxpayer money. |
Because an educated public is more productive than an uneducated public. Because a state university will train children of farmers best practices in farming so their farms are more productive, have a higher yield, preserve soil, conserve water, and grow crops that raise the most revenue for the farmer, the state and the country. An educated public also means, better banking, better insurance agents, better entrepenuership and more innovation, which means more better paying and higher quality jobs, it means more nurses and doctors for our rural communities, more teachers for our states and so on. Are these bad outcomes? Most state institutions provide research that leads to industrial parks full of innovation in medical sciences, engineering, agriculture and so on. The average benefit to states in terms of ROI is like 10:1. |
Are you just playing dumb or do you really not know how the U.S. researches pretty much everything it needs to research? |
Or they’re being paid to influence the conversation? |
The ignorance on this thread is sad but not surprising.
That letter from their legal counsel is FIRE. |
Harvard has said it does not believe in socialism like you do. |
Seems a lot of researchers are leaving for Europe. The US brain drain is on. |
Or North. |
Well gee, in that case we better defund them :roll: |
That’s idiotic. Research, and research labs are very expensive. Harvard has top notch research labs. It’s easier and cheaper for them to subsidize these than study everything in government labs. This admin probably just wants to cut research, which will have very real effects on research for diseases that impact society. |
The thing is Bill Ackman really only cares about three things: billionaires, Israel, himself (and yes #3 should be separated from #1). On the one hand, he has given a lot of money - and is proud of it! - to Harvard (a lot, like over $25 million) and to organizations that are surely rocked by his support of the Trump administration these days. For example: he has donated generously to Human Rights Watch, DACA organization TheDream.US, cancer research organizations, and so on. He likes being a philanthropist! On the other, he has used the lure of this money as a weapon to blackmail and control organizations about the issues he actually cares about (Israel!). Unsurprisingly, he has was totally silent about yesterday's letter. He has basically been quiet since Trump announced the 90-day delay (billions safe(r) for now!). Unlike Trump and his cabinet, press security, and the group of sycophant clowns who surround the president, Bill Ackman is actually an intelligent guy who agrees with most progressive causes. BUT he'll allow all of these causes/organizations/institutions to be wiped off the earth if he perceives a threat to one of the three things he actually cares about. Priorities. |
Harvard labs suck and don't produce enough talent. We have to import talent for everything. Maybe if they trained half the people, they rejected that were qualified. Maybe if they were better all the talent would be motivated to study science instead of wealth management. |
Science is difficult and doesn’t pay well. They could have the best labs and rich students would still not study science. |