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yardwork

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17. They will take some but they can't replace the scope and scale of the work.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #15)

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 02:43 PM

Aug 2025

With federal funding, U.S. research universities invested in state of the art facilities and equipment, most of them invented in the same institutions.

That's why researchers came to the US from all over the world.

The big winner will be China. I'm sure that's why this happening.

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RFK JUNIOR [View all] dcmfox Aug 2025 OP

Maybe researchers in other (free) countries will be the ones to defeat cancer. sinkingfeeling Aug 2025 #1

The other democracies don't have the resources. yardwork Aug 2025 #5

I look for the UK and Germany to take over the research and US scientists. sinkingfeeling Aug 2025 #15

They will take some but they can't replace the scope and scale of the work. yardwork Aug 2025 #17

Definitely. We're leading in one category only: idiocy. live love laugh Aug 2025 #31

You should change the OP to RFK JUNIOR mucifer Aug 2025 #2

I don't really even like referring to him as "RFK Jr." Xavier Breath Aug 2025 #4

I call him Bob. I hate him. yardwork Aug 2025 #6

He's Brainworm Bobby to me. Dulcinea Aug 2025 #9

+1000 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2025 #18

He's well worth hating, that's for damn sure. Xavier Breath Aug 2025 #12

You're in good company. The rest of his family hate him also. erronis Aug 2025 #30

I call him BobK, or sometimes BobK Jr. for those not quick on the uptake. He doesn't deserve his father's name. Hekate Aug 2025 #16

RFKKK works for me. BurnDoubt Aug 2025 #34

Yes per the other poster please add JR to the name in the title OP Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #3

this will be the only winter before the midterms rampartd Aug 2025 #10

And when the next pandemic comes and it will Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #14

One of the greatest mysteries to me is that, while the US has many of the greatest scientists on earth, ... dedl67 Aug 2025 #7

Greed Mysterian Aug 2025 #21

That is a succinct and yet very comprehensive explanation of the core problem. n/t Whiskeytide Aug 2025 #27

Hear Hear! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Aug 2025 #29

This affects me personally Lifeafter70 Aug 2025 #8

I'm so sorry that your family is going through this Danmel Aug 2025 #13

Hugs to you it is hard on a parent when Lifeafter70 Aug 2025 #19

Elections have consequences gulliver Aug 2025 #11

It's kind of like the worm is still in his brain FoggyLake Aug 2025 #20

Yes surfered Aug 2025 #24

Nah!The worm simply died of starvation 3825-87867 Aug 2025 #26

The blood of the police officer shot and killed in Georgia is on his hands onenote Aug 2025 #22

Doctor's prescription surfered Aug 2025 #23

This! surfered Aug 2025 #25

Has anyone read much about this? womanofthehills Aug 2025 #28

The Trump Administration MissouriDem47 Aug 2025 #32

May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Aug 2025 #33

This also stops the development of a new vaccine against the COVID virus and all the new mutations of the virus. Botany Aug 2025 #35

This is the lazy man's eugenics. BurnDoubt Aug 2025 #36