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Trump’s budget calls for seismic disruption in medical and science research
- jacquesm 10y agoIncredible how someone with the slogan 'Making America Great Again' can then get away with doing the exact opposite of that. It's like watching the captain take a sledge-hammer to the bridge of the ship that a few 100 million people are depending on. Fortunately in NL we seem to have managed to put a stop to rightwing populism taking over politics entirely (for now, at least), it will certainly come at a price (coalition forming will be difficult) but anything better than a country governed by a party hell bent on un-doing 50 years of progress.
- dovdovdov 10y agoWell, US people can't stop saying "great /s".
- BrailleHunting 10y ago"Draining the swamp" by stuffing it with Goldmans Sachs and billionaire swamp monsters. Anyone whom believes/ed DJT is/was either foolish, stupid and/or insane and gets what they deserve.
- liberte82 10y agoWhat about the rest of us who didn't believe him for a second?
- tiatia 10y ago"it will certainly come at a price " It surely does. It is called Muslimification. Or the transformation of an open minded society into a tribal system. Enjoy!
- LyndsySimon 10y ago> Incredible how someone with the slogan 'Making America Great Again' can then get away with doing the exact opposite of that. This type of cut is exactly what those who elected Trump intended him to advocate. I know no one who voted for him who is angry about these proposed cuts, and many who believe they don't go deep enough.
- tiatia 10y ago"The National Institutes of Health, for example, would be cut by nearly $6 billion, about a fifth of the NIH budget." Many of their employees have drop dead salaries. And the same time these department are corrupt as fuck (say hand out of SBIR grants to buddies). I know I will be down voted but trust me, I won't shed a tear about these cuts.
- kogepathic 10y agoYou're getting down voted because you've provided no evidence to support this claim.
- tiatia 10y agoMate, I know that the plural of anecdote is not data. And I can't provide specifics because such a thing may easily blow up in my face (blow back). But just FYI: I had a SBIR grant rejected and it was rejected with a cause. But I also had a SBIR grant rejected and the rejection was totally bullshit. There can't be another name for this but corruption. At the same time, when I submitted this application, a buddy who got a major SBIR grant in the past told me not to have high hopes. He explained to me how and why his proposal was selected from the big stack of proposals. It is not an open race. Don't shed a tear. I am sure this officials with their high 6 figs salaries can easily find a job in the private sector. Enjoy!
- mcphage 10y ago> There can't be another name for this but corruption. So you've had 2 grant proposals rejected—and even you only claim 1 of them was incorrect. So your solution to a grant rejection is to burn the whole system down?
- tiatia 10y agoI could not know that the first one was not feasible. I had no access to the equipment (but later someone had access who published a paper). But still, one of the main points the reviewer did not get. Even if it was not a good idea from an energetic standpoint, it was still a good idea to store energy. If you have electricity (wind!) that you can't use, it may still be a good idea to convert this to fuel. The second one had nothing comparable. We had peer reviewed publications. Nobody had this in this field. The main argument was that it is financially not feasible for mass production. The reviewer was off by factor 100. The guy who got the proposal, he told me how it went. I don't want to go into details. Does this answer your questions?
- mjevans 10y agoWhat I'm getting from this is that he expects to die and there won't be any benefit in quality or quantity of life from this research. The exact opposite of the kind of view that leadership should have.
- selimthegrim 10y agoReading this sitting at a table at APS March Meeting is absolutely surreal.