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I suspect the anti-science bit has more to do with approving Keystone/DAPL than some hard line policy. If Balaji Srinivasan is confirmed for the FDA, I'd expec
by yarou 10y ago
I suspect the anti-science bit has more to do with approving Keystone/DAPL than some hard line policy.
If Balaji Srinivasan is confirmed for the FDA, I'd expect gene therapies and stem cell treatments to become more commonplace. After all, Balaji's first startup dealt with genetic testing.
What is more concerning is that the US might face a brain drain in the coming years, due to the visa ban from so-called "terrorist" states (funny how Saudi Arabia is conspicuously absent from that list...)
- komali2 10y agoStep into any university Chemistry or Engineering building and it becomes very clear that the only reason the USA is still at the forefront of scientific advancement is because it has still convinced the highly educated of other nations that this is the place to be. Remove the desire for the Chinese, Indian, and Russian engineers to try to study and work here, and you remove the USA's competitive advantage, and you give back all that talent straight to the USA's biggest competitors.