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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^PP again. The bottom line:
"In 1978, Harvard University had a $1.4 billion endowment and admitted 2,200 incoming students.

In 2023, the endowment sits at $50.7 billion—with 1,942 students admitted. That’s a 3,521% increase to their endowment and a 12% decrease to their admissions. And the same is true for the rest of Ivy League."[/quote]

Why do you care?  Only because you are interested in destroying excellence.  Go to Truth Social to find your crew.[/quote]

I'm not MAGA. At all. I'm not the OP. But Harvard is hoarding wealth in opposition to its stated and historical mission. You can't be so starry-eyed about ivy league schools that you don't call them out for this insane hypocrisy. [/quote]

But it is a MAGA talking point to yell about Harvard's endowment. Slashing NIH funding will hurt West Virginia University, Pitt, University of Maryland, and so on. And you didn't give those as an example. You picked the instituion in the BEST position to weather this storm.

Also, if you were genuinely asking, when you ask schools to dig in to their endowments to fund research, you're asking universities to pay for the research the public needs. University of Maryland doesn't need us to cure lukemia, the public does. Which is why the public invests in research. Universities won't see it as their jobs to cover the public need for health research.

I'm in research, and every biomedical health researcher I know thinks this is going to drastically impact our progress. People who are actually in the field and know how things work. It's astounding to me that either people outside of the system think they know better - either that of they don't even care that health innovations will be drastically cut. Clinical trials won't be funded at anywhere near the same pace.

Those of you in red states, please call your congressional representatives. PLEASE.[/quote]

I would love to know if anyone is reading these well reasoned arguments about NIH funding and listening. A[b]re any folks who have digested MAGA talking points open enough to say "Oh I didn't think of it that way. Geez I guess this is a big deal." I would feel so much better if I heard of ONE person who approached this with humility and didn't blindly accept right wing rhetoric (rhetoric offered mostly by people who have spent no time understanding the complex issues here).[/b]  [/quote]

Would you grant the same courtesy and justify all the funding and not just listen to the left-wing propaganda?

Of course, every researcher whose income is in some way tied to this funding has a massive incentive to say the sky is falling if not funded. You know, it is like asking a barber if you need a haircut. You know what the answer is going to be.

I voted for Hillary, Biden, and Kamala. Cannot get myself to vote for someone who instigated Jan 6th and many such atrocious behaviors. So, not MAGA at all.

But I fully support these cuts.

[b]Not because it does not do good, it does, but because there is so much waste. I had a front row seat to this waste.
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This is where many of you are exact carbon copies of MAGA. You are just 100% convinced you are right and that this funding is absolutely needed and anyone who questions this must be most charitably called "un-educated".
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You don’t know what you’re talking about or why this will devastate medical research, but since you wouldn’t listen anyway, I’ll just say that it’s three weeks into this administration and THIS is what we’re doing? This is what we’re targeting? Not the billions in document Medicare advantage fraud? Not Blackrock or Congress who can effectively legally commit insider trading? Not trillions in waste due to the military industrial complex? No, we’re arguing about who is paying the salaries of Offices of Research and the electrical bills in labs.

It’s the same distraction bullshit as performing N.zi salutes just to get people to argue if we did indeed see what our eyes told us we saw. [/quote]

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