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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's undeniable at this point that NIH funded, indirectly and via EcoHealth, gain of function research that created COVID and killed millions in the process. If you're intellectually honest, you have to at a minimum acknowledge this plausibility and that is why Fauci's pardon dates to 2014, the year Obama banned gain of function research in the US. It is this vanity you must recognize if you want to understand why people are on the warpath against unchecked funding for research by unaccountable "experts" who ended up creating a Frankenstein virus in the name of good.

On top of it is all the soft social sciences research of questionable merit. If you'd paid attention to higher education in recent years, research was getting infused with DEI principles, so people putting together applications for grants had to incorporate DEI and universities also started mandating DEI topics for approval of research proposals. It wasn't everywhere and for everything but a lot of it was happening. Likewise DEI administrators were also setting mandates for academic departments, influencing the tone of research topics and this was across all academic sectors. The university DEI admins were able to do this because the Federal grantors of research funds were simultaneously doing the same thing from their end, especially under the Biden administration.

That's what the new Trump administration is going to be looking for and rooting out of higher education. No more research into transgenders or identity politics is obviously the most visible but it will trickle down in the same way DEI was trickling down into everything.

I do wonder how far they will go. Contrary to what some of you want to believe/wishcast, "billionaires" aren't keen at seeing the end of cutting edge STEM research, as that's the origin of so much innovation that is later capitalized by Silicon Valley. The funding model will change dramatically but I suspect at the end it will come out more solidly reliable and focused on serious topics, not so many of the questionable soft topics (like we saw with USAID). [/quote]

What the actual F.[/quote]

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