Posted on 08/16/2025 5:54:06 PM PDT by from occupied ga
Pulling funding as pressure and/or punishment is fine. In doing so, one has to be selective and not throw the baby out with the bathwater. This guy sound like one of the ones to defund. There are others that funding has a return in value to the taxpayer.
The person who discovers a cure for cancer, will be found floating face down in the East river the next day.
The Medical Industrial complex….
There are plenty of very wealthy people that can fund research aside from the fact that AI will be much better at it very soon!! After Covid and the absolute LIES coming from scientists and pharmaceutical companies SCREW THEM and their fraudulent research!!!
I noticed that too - just a correlation to a gene and a third rate appeal to emotion to squeeze more taxpayer pelf.
This article is the squeal of a hog getting cut off from the trough
Great idea. I wonder how he’d do with a go fund me.
He misses the point. Research is certainly making HIS life better, but is the government’s taking taxpayer money to fund endless navel gazing “research” making THEIR lives better. I think not
“…and walk away from cures within reach…”
When people say words that don’t really mean anything.
The goal of a grant is to acquire the next one for more money.
You may find something on Monday, but not report it till asked.Then you just found it. Get it?
Private sector demands you work for your money.
Public sector has you working towards xa goal, and maintains your name on the list of qualified recurring grants.
I love “within reach”. Fusion power has been “within reach” for the last 50-60 years. Again it’s the Spanish Prisoner con. Just a little more money and the prisoner will be free.
Kinda funny that he doesn’t mention how much was cut in dollars.
If government funds the research, anything derived from that research should be public property. If it finds a cure, the cure should be free to all taxpayers, or at least back out the R&D markup.
RC
Clear sociopath masquerading as a medical do-gooder.
“Just as research teams are approaching success”
IF true, then private investment would leap at the opportunities to cash in ... otherwise, then NOT true ...
I read the article and all it did was whine.
So, was the funding cut due to the overhead charged by the University exceeding federal guidelines? Was the problem the federal debt limit and not to keep expanding the NIH budget?
I remember going back to DC to lobby Congress that they were neglecting research in physical science, because funding of NIS was not going up like NIH. I was told the Congressional earmarks went to NIH because the medical condition groups helped reelect Congressmen who gave federal money generously.
Well the federal earmark/budget gravy train is pretty much over.
Thinks he can use the word science to awe the rubes in fly over country. Oh well if it's science then give him all the money he wants.
"Anthropogenic Climate change" is also being called science and it's nothing but a giant scam. I wonder how much EV car companies contributed to Democrats over the last 15 years and how much taxpayer loot they got back in return
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