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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did this thread turn into one about racism or DEI? Can we get back to the point? Which is that unless the most recent announcement is walked back due to it's ridiculousness, this is going to disastrous for scientific and medical research in our country. US will definitely no longer be a world leader in this area under these conditions. And no, it's not just going to affect the social sciences like some people seem to think. I work in research we are all stunned and find it surreal to see people celebrating Trump's decisions. [/quote]

My advice is to calm down. There was a lot of bloat and wasteful research that didn't contribute much. People have illustrated examples on this thread. But you'd rather believe in a different narrative so you pretend otherwise. I also cannot jump to automatically defend higher education because I'm not wild on how certain aspects of research was utilized through higher education, to use as a controversial but increasingly likely example, NIH gave grants to various universities who in turn subbed out the grants to a certain research lab in Wuhan, either directly or indirectly via a certain entity called EcoHealth Alliance. This is indisputable and factual. And I don't doubt we will learn a lot more about this as the new administration is determined to turn over all stones and reveal everything.

As it is, we also have a $36 trillion dollar deficit that really is not sustainable either. Cuts will have to be made. Deeply and significantly. I did notice that so far the initial attacks by the new administration is effectively a class warfare against the "educated" classes of America: higher edu, legacy media, Fed agencies. But these entities were not kind to the rest of America either. [/quote]
You have no clue about the budget. Education (and USAID for that matter) are such a small piece. The real reason for the deficit is the giant tax breaks for the wealthy. Trump makes a show of axing Education and aid, painting them as indoctrination and terrorist funding while he lines his pockets on the tab of the American people via the copious tax breaks that benefit him (and the many violations of emoluments clause).[/quote]

Government spending has increased faster than any possible level of taxation revenue, idiot. It’s not the “not taxing” it’s the spending. Duh.[/quote]

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