- I feel exactly the same way about all of the scientists who were RIF’d or had their funding denied. The ripple effects are enormous and will undermine public health for decades to come. It will take a beat for the general public to see it, but it’s coming.
- One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.