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World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
The New York Times ^ | May 31, 2025, 12:01 a.m. ET | James Glanz

Posted on 05/31/2025 10:14:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.

For decades, Bangalore, India, has been an incubator for scientific talent, sending newly minted Ph.D.s around the world to do groundbreaking research. In an ordinary year, many aim their sights at labs in the United States. “These are our students, and we want them to go and do something amazing,” said a professor at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, Raj Ladher.

But this is not an ordinary year.

When Professor Ladher queried some 30 graduates in the city recently about their plans, only one had certain employment in the United States. For many of the others, the political turmoil in Washington has dried up job opportunities in what Professor Ladher calls “the best research ecosystem in the world.” Some decided they would now rather take their skills elsewhere, including Austria, Japan and Australia, while others opted to stay in India.

As the Trump administration moves with abandon to deny visas, expel foreign students and slash spending on research, scientists in the United States are becoming increasingly alarmed. The global supremacy that the United States has long enjoyed in health, biology, the physical sciences and other fields, they warn, may be coming to an end.

“If things continue as they are, American science is ruined,” said David W. Hogg, a professor of physics and data science at New York University who works closely with astronomers and other experts around the world. “If it becomes impossible to work with non-U.S. scientists,” he said, “it would basically render the kinds of research that I do impossible.”

Research cuts and moves to curtail the presence of foreign students by the Trump administration have happened at a dizzying pace.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: bs; demedia; fakenews; fakescience; fakescientists; gaslighting; jamesglanz; newyorkslimes; officialdemnarrative; tds
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1 posted on 05/31/2025 10:14:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just more New York Slimes garbage.


2 posted on 05/31/2025 10:15:41 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let the world pay for the “world scientists”


3 posted on 05/31/2025 10:15:56 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The “scientists” have lost their favorite “mark”. The Euros won’t pick up the slack, they never do. Grant Seekers hardest hit.


4 posted on 05/31/2025 10:18:03 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What about the promising scientists here in the US? The glass is half empty mentality gives away the source of this article.


5 posted on 05/31/2025 10:18:50 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: Skwor

Research can’t happen in Bangalore?


6 posted on 05/31/2025 10:18:51 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
For decades, Bangalore, India, has been an incubator for scientific talent

Bull shit! If those from India are so damn intelligent, why does their country look like an overflowing nasty toilet?

7 posted on 05/31/2025 10:18:57 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: piytar

You beat me too it... It’s more like Americans are the international slush fund for pseudo-science and massive-profit pharmaceutical research while the rest of the world benefits (or suffers) without the investment...


8 posted on 05/31/2025 10:19:40 AM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists-Satanists: redundant labels.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is terrible!

All that lost research grant $$.

Transgendered mice hardest hit.

9 posted on 05/31/2025 10:20:18 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; lightman; Navy Patriot

.....The global supremacy that the United States has long enjoyed in health, biology, the physical sciences and other fields, they warn, may be coming to an end.....

That is true—and not just NYT propaganda!

Stop the demented war against Harvard and against science! Keep America number one in research!


10 posted on 05/31/2025 10:20:25 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: dragnet2
why does their country look like an overflowing nasty toilet?

Very old civilization, greatly overpopulated.

11 posted on 05/31/2025 10:21:24 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Unfortunate name.

How about we encourage American kids to study hard at non-woke American schools to become the best candidates for research jobs in the US that for-profit companies are willing to pay for?


12 posted on 05/31/2025 10:21:40 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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Good. They can stay in India


13 posted on 05/31/2025 10:22:17 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: dragnet2
If those from India are so damn intelligent, why does their country look like an overflowing nasty toilet?

If one were to look at certain cities in the U.S., they might wonder the same thing about us. If Americans are so smart, how come our county looks like a ghetto?

But not all the U.S. is a ghetto, and not all of India is a toilet.

14 posted on 05/31/2025 10:23:02 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: GingisK

That’s just more BS.


15 posted on 05/31/2025 10:24:05 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Well then...
“If things continue as they are, American science is ruined,” said David W. Hogg, a professor of physics and data science at New York University who works closely with astronomers and other experts around the world. “If it becomes impossible to work with non-U.S. scientists,” he said, “it would basically render the kinds of research that I do impossible.”
STBUW
16 posted on 05/31/2025 10:25:12 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Honorary Serb
Stop the demented war against Harvard and against science! Keep America number one in research!

I got yer DEI "science" for ya right here: Wiley just had to retract 11,000 fraudulent "peer reviewed" papers and shut down 19 "scientific" journals.

https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/

17 posted on 05/31/2025 10:27:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Angelino97
Stop the bull s***! India makes out ghettos look inviting. C'mon.

By the way, I can show you thousands of images, WAY worse than this in India.

18 posted on 05/31/2025 10:27:22 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Angelino97

You comparing U.S. ghettos to India is really stupid. Who do you work for?


19 posted on 05/31/2025 10:29:04 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m guessing that most of the lost research is not important in the first place.

Climate Change stuff.
Trying to find the largest prime number.
Measuring the mass of some far-away galaxy.
Etc.


20 posted on 05/31/2025 10:29:42 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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