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John Harwood: "Trump Wants to Cut the Kind of Cancer Research that Saved My Life. More than 600,000 Americans will die from cancer this year. Trump's cuts to medical and other scientific research will have devastating consequences for millions more":
zeteo.com/p/trump-cut-cancer-r
#Trump #AntiScience #AntiResearch #WorstPresidentEver #healthcare #politics

Zeteo · Trump Wants to Cut the Kind of Cancer Research that Saved My LifeBy John Harwood

"Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired

Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content"

by Eric Holthaus
Wed 11 Jun 2025 06.00 EDT

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff firedBy Eric Holthaus

"Federal science budgets have been slashed. Stricter immigration policies have spread fear among international scientists working in the United States, and those who had hoped to. Graduate and postdoctoral students have had their visas canceled, or worry they will. The administration cut off funding for international students at Harvard — a judge blocked the move, but other universities worry about being next.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to “aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese students in what he called “critical fields,” which almost certainly includes science, where labs often have more Chinese than American-born graduate students and postdocs.

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President Trump has worried about the nation losing its scientific edge to “rivals abroad,” as he wrote in a letter in March to his science adviser, Michael Kratsios. He urged Mr. Kratsios to continue Vannevar Bush’s vision, “recapturing the urgency which propelled us so far in the last century.” Yet Mr. Kratsios argues that philanthropies and industry should pick up more of the cost, and that too much federal science spending goes to bureaucracy.

“Spending more money on the wrong things is far worse than spending less money on the right things,” he said in a speech at the National Academy in May.

But even at Johns Hopkins, which has benefited from the philanthropy of former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, those dollars can’t make up the shortfall. Industry doesn’t typically fund basic research, and it costs more to do research in industry in part because companies, unlike university labs, have to pay competitive wages.""

nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trum

Mathias Unberath, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University, has many students from abroad. “My whole team, including those who were eager to apply for more permanent positions in the U.S., have no more interest,” he said.
The New York Times · As the Trump Administration Slashes Federal Spending, Scientists Consider Leaving the U.S.By Kate Zernike
#USA#Trump#Science

This is NOT healthy America. This is America being #ravaged and slowly #destroyed by #conspiracy theories, and #deliberate stifling of #information. This is #criminal #suppression by #antiscience #nutjobs. The product of a #damaged brain and drug addled mind. People running this #government don't care about the common population. They'll save themselves with their hoarded money and let us perish via deliberate acts. #Rise, America! #Oppose these #tyrants. #USPolitics

utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/06/0

A proper #scientific study conducted over a period of 2 years concluded that gender affirming care has consistent benefits over a wide range of physical and mental health issues. The same people who commissioned the study are rejecting it because it doesn't fit their bigoted agenda. SHAME ON YOU, #Utah #GOP! You are #DISGRACEFUL!
#UtahPolitics #disgusting #scum #enemyOfThePeople #corrupt #TraitorGOP #antiscience #uneducated #ignorant #bigot #transphobic

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