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> In general, Krebs says, NGO grants for animal-free research tend to be smaller than the longer-term, multimillion-dollar awards offered by government sources
by mschuster91 2y ago
> In general, Krebs says, NGO grants for animal-free research tend to be smaller than the longer-term, multimillion-dollar awards offered by government sources such as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research.
... for now. Given the widely circulated "naughty words" list for grants [1], I would not be surprised at all if this kind of research gets labeled and discarded as "woke" just as well.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/15/these-197-terms-may-trigger-reviews-of-your-nih-nsf-grant-proposals/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/15/these-197-t...
- DrNosferatu 2y agoWith that terms index, there will be no more mathematical statistics research!
- mschuster91 2y agoPushing FUD on the entire academic sector, that's what it is. Pressure people into absurd self-censorship.
- dillydogg 2y agoA friend of mine studies Chlamydia, which, when intracellular, replicates in a structure called an inclusion. So all of the Chlamydia researchers had to rewrite their proposals to say "parasitophorous vacuole" which had fallen out of favor.
- DecentShoes 2y agoShould've thought of that before they started punishing scientists who dissented from gender ideology. Something had to be done to stop it stomping further on the rights of women, children, and gay people.
- mschuster91 2y ago> Should've thought of that before they started punishing scientists who dissented from gender ideology. What are you talking about? No one got "punished for dissenting". > Something had to be done to stop it stomping further on the rights of women, children, and gay people. Again: what are you talking about?!
- misnome 2y agoThis is 2025. You aren’t going to debate facism. It isn’t in good faith.