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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Research dominance by American universities is slipping.  
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harvard-global-ranking-chinese-universities-trump-cuts.html

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.

Until recently, Harvard was the most productive research university in the world, according to a global ranking that looks at academic publication.

That position may be teetering, the most recent evidence of a troubling trend for American academia.

Harvard recently dropped to No. 3 on the ranking. The schools racing up the list are not Harvard’s American peers, but Chinese universities that have been steadily climbing in rankings that emphasize the volume and quality of research they produce.

The reordering comes as the Trump administration has been slashing research funding to American schools that depend heavily on the federal government to pay for scientific endeavors. President Trump’s policies did not start the American universities’ relative decline, which began years ago, but they could accelerate it.
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The cuts are reducing frauds and scams. We need to cut more fraud, waste and abuse from these universities.[/quote]
Absolutely.  And indiscriminate amputation is the best treatment for hangnails.

Meanwhile, in the real world, adults who follow the news know that the criminal teenagers and culture warriors making these cuts generally had absolutely no idea what the research they were cutting even did.  [/quote]

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