I believe the next step is dismantling the NIH and CDC
If you’ve been paying attention to the news, major scientific governing bodies that fund research, including the USDA, the CDC, and the NIH have shown they are complying with administration - or have been forced to comply.
As with everything else about the first two weeks in office, everything is in line with project 2025, under the guidance of project of 2025 staff - the scrubbing of federally funded research related to climate change, HIV, and gender has been swiftly and effectively implemented - as explicitly planned in the document. I believe the next step, as laid out in the project 2025 document, is to use the control of the levers pf power and the HHS to demolish our model of national research funding as we know it today. It says in the document that it would be up to states to pay for their own research, that the CDC and NIH must be dismantled.
Money is already tight. Research is expensive. If states are forced to pay for their own research, we are in big trouble. I think its time to try for non federal grants and making more intelligent decisions on how we spend our money.
I am just a scientist. I don’t know how politics works - but I can see the writing on the walls. Tell everybody you know, start talking about it. We need to be prepared for the worst.
Friends - there is still more to learn about how this beautiful world works. I believe there are still people we can help. I believe it’s going to get hard. Lean on each other for support. I’ll repeat the kind words of my close friend “There is always a place for what you’re doing. It genuinely matters.“
If you’ve been paying attention to the news, major scientific governing bodies that fund research, including the USDA, the CDC, and the NIH have shown they are complying with administration - or have been forced to comply.
As with everything else about the first two weeks in office, everything is in line with project 2025, under the guidance of project of 2025 staff - the scrubbing of federally funded research related to climate change, HIV, and gender has been swiftly and effectively implemented - as explicitly planned in the document. I believe the next step, as laid out in the project 2025 document, is to use the control of the levers pf power and the HHS to demolish our model of national research funding as we know it today. It says in the document that it would be up to states to pay for their own research, that the CDC and NIH must be dismantled.
Money is already tight. Research is expensive. If states are forced to pay for their own research, we are in big trouble. I think its time to try for non federal grants and making more intelligent decisions on how we spend our money.
I am just a scientist. I don’t know how politics works - but I can see the writing on the walls. Tell everybody you know, start talking about it. We need to be prepared for the worst.
Friends - there is still more to learn about how this beautiful world works. I believe there are still people we can help. I believe it’s going to get hard. Lean on each other for support. I’ll repeat the kind words of my close friend “There is always a place for what you’re doing. It genuinely matters.“