Posted on 02/18/2025 12:48:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
“This is simply the end.”
That was the five-word message that Rick Huganir, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, received from a colleague just before 6 p.m. two Fridays ago, with news that would send a wave of panic through the scientific community.…
The flurry of activity in recent weeks stems from Trump’s executive orders that aim to shrink the federal workforce and target programs related to gender identity, environmental justice or diversity, equity and inclusion.
In upending the scientific status quo, the Trump administration has focused on three main areas: cutting federal workers, slashing budgets and reversing efforts to expand diversity within science.
Its most significant financial move took place on Feb. 7, when NIH announced it would limit indirect funding for laboratories that receive federal research grants to 15%. The policy, if allowed to continue, would slash billions of dollars for overhead costs that support biomedical research.
Though NIH estimated that the move would save $4 billion each year, it would also leave universities and research institutes to foot much of the bill instead, and many have said they simply can’t.
Today, when a scientist at Johns Hopkins University receives an NIH grant for a project — say, $1 million a year — the university receives an additional 55%, or $550,000, to cover overhead costs. The rate is negotiated between NIH and Johns Hopkins, and it’s based on an accounting of the university’s research expenses.
“This is a huge cut. Johns Hopkins Medical School would lose $200 million a year,” Huganir said. “It’s not a viable enterprise to do science.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
And, this is a bad thing?
Good.
Research should be independent; it cuts down on agenda science.
What they’re doing isn’t science.
“ Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.”
“This is simply the end.”
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This isn’t unhinged rhetoric with no factual information. No, not all. It’s excellent journalism. Science is under siege!!!!
There’s no demagoguery.
and target programs related to gender identity, environmental justice or diversity, equity and inclusion
Oooohhhh.... aaaahhhhh.... so trust the science has gone the way of the dodo and no more studies on the sexual habits of donkeys.
“Evan Bush, Aria Bendix and Denise Chow”
3 writers/prop artists/liars to put together a pile of crapola.
Don’t they know, Nobody gives a shiiite what they say anymore?
“Science?”
Like the “science” that gives us umpteen dozen “genders?”
The “science” that can’t even define a woman?
That “science?”
Research like the kind into gain of function?
Me:
Read the headline, look to the source, NBC.
Uh huh, more BS.
Ask Sabine Hassenfelder.
Fact is the 60, 70% plus I directs don’t support the scientists anymore but go to administration including DEI programs etc…
John’s Hopkins can make up the difference by cutting all its DEI programs and redirecting that funding to actual medical research.
This is science like the science underlying the master race.
The article has 3 authors which means it is a flat out lie created for the narrative and has nothing to do with any real news.
Given the state of research I hope it is true as any such research was likely a grift anyway and of no value.
Hopkins has an endowment of $10.5 billion. At a measly 5% interest, that would generate nearly $528m per year. They can pay for their own damn "scientific" research.
Interesting fact, if we had cut HHS funding earlier there would have never been covid-19.
Sad isn’t it.
No one cares. Should of thought about that before wasting billions funding “Shrimp running on treadmill” and other nonsensical “research”
Gender identity, environmental justice, and DEI are not sciences.
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