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PhD moron asks why no one is talking about NIH cuts
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It's the same playbook that they used for public schools, strip funding, let the school flounder, then they'll start asking "well what have these universities contributed lately? Why should we fund their research when they haven't discovered anything recently?"
The only colleges that will stay standing will be the networking hubs for their rich sons to plot the best ways to ~~exploit the working class~~ get business and economics degrees.
yup. Ironically, NIH grants lead to quite tangible discoveries, and institutions with the highest indirects (overhead funding) usually have proportionally higher rate of major discoveries. So the original poster isn't wrong about this hamstringing US biomedical research. On another thread someone proposed that Canada should have a grant-buyout brain drain program for refugees from US academia. It was actually a pretty smart one. The EU could also bank on this.
I've heard rumblings of foreign countries already offering deals to phds in the US.
yup. the US will taste its own medicine with brain drain
Even worse... They're going to celebrate it.
Deny university funding, dismantle the department of education, religious schools become the only institutions that can survive, government funnels money into the "best" educational choice...
I see where this is going & I hate it already.