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Wicked Blue

(7,692 posts) Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:06 PM Feb 10

Scientists Warn Trump's NIH Cuts Will Drop 'Atomic Bomb' On Health Research

Source: HuffPost

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s drastic cuts to National Institutes of Health funding will cripple biomedical research, stifle innovation and eliminate thousands of jobs, including in red states that voted for the president, scientists warned this week.

Over the weekend, the NIH announced it is sharply reducing federal funding for overhead costs at universities, hospitals and institutes required to conduct research. Known generally as “indirect costs,” they include things like rent for space, utilities, internet access, payroll, equipment and other intangible benefits, like free research assistants. This differs from “direct” costs of doing the research, such as salary and supplies.

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Scientists and researchers who spoke to HuffPost expressed deep alarm about the impact of the funding cuts on medical research, warning it would cripple efforts to cure cancer and other deadly and debilitating illnesses around the world. Most requested anonymity because of fear of intimidation or retribution by the Trump administration.

“This attack on the very structure of the academic research enterprise is threatening a system that every other country in the world has tried to reproduce, for no gain on any side that I can see,” a research professor at the University of Chicago told HuffPost. “It seems spiteful and targeted at those of us who just want to contribute to a better society.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nih-cuts-science_n_67aa3b53e4b0ade4a9a36a1e

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Scientists Warn Trump's NIH Cuts Will Drop 'Atomic Bomb' On Health Research (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 10 OP

Making America great again... Aristus Feb 10 #1

Researchers don't get full funding for the basics applegrove Feb 10 #2

I have Tinnitus and Science Doctors Need to help this Community Oneear Feb 10 #3

Very Important Issue Baron2024 Feb 10 #4

Aristus

(69,304 posts)

1. Making America great again...

Reply to Wicked Blue (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:12 PM

Feb 10

God, Trump is such a worthless fuckwad.

For all of the problems that we face in this country, for all of the ways we fall short of our fellow nations in the developed world, there was one thing the US still did better than any other country: medical research. Doctors and medical researchers came from around the world to do their studying here.

And Dipshit wants to end that.

God......damn......

applegrove

(124,900 posts)

2. Researchers don't get full funding for the basics

Reply to Wicked Blue (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:15 PM

Feb 10

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of running a lab so they will have to go to private or corporate money to make up the difference. That gives outsiders a say in what kind of research is done.

Background: https://politicalwire.com/2025/02/10/22-states-sue-to-block-trump-cuts-to-research-grants/

Oneear

(431 posts)

3. I have Tinnitus and Science Doctors Need to help this Community

Reply to Wicked Blue (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:35 PM

Feb 10

NIH, CDC, FDA: How would you like to have Noise at a Pitch of High C 24/7/365? How do I fall asleep at night? How I am treating myself
is this. Maybe it will help someone with Tinnitus in America. I am Deaf in one ear, so I wear Signia Hearing Aids with Masker's app on my cell phone. I use another app called Neosensory, which is an over-the-counter product during the day. At Night, I use CBD Oil, RSHO X, Delta 9, Headwrap, and Tinearity G1 this is a White Sound Generator. You get it through an Audiologist. Donald Trump, you are showing you are not for the Patients in America to live a NORML quality of life. How you want Us to live, I have no clue. Care to talk about it, Donald Trump, and Show me.

Baron2024

(1,308 posts)

4. Very Important Issue

Reply to Wicked Blue (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2025, 08:04 PM

Feb 10

The NIH and the American biomedical sector are the envy of the world. It is sheer stupidity to cut into it. Basic research that has been subsidized by the Federal Government has been a great benefit to the Nation, but also to private enterprise. There would likely not have been a Biotechnology industry without the NIH and basic research. So these people who are purportedly pro-business are either ignorant of this, or they do not care. This tyrannical regime must be stopped before the entirety of American Civilization is destroyed.

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