Political piece (literally speaking: a judgement on the management of the polis), but intriguing as it comes from Gary Marcus. Hence the submission. In short (

Political piece (literally speaking: a judgement on the management of the polis), but intriguing as it comes from Gary Marcus. Hence the submission. In short (though the piece itself is short - Dick Aslin's piece*, which seems to have encouraged Gary Marcus to expression, is the long analysis), > am here to say that drastically cutting NIH & NSF funding and reducing grant “overhead” to universities to 15% are among the dumbest ideas I have ever seen. // America will never be the same. Science will take a huge hit; academic stars will leave; university reputations will crumble, and homegrown talent will be even harder to find * https://dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-paying-too-much-for-biomedical https://dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-paying-too-much-for-...