- So the question here is mis-specified. There is no "alternative" research funding in any way that would make American biomedical research whole for researchers to seek out. 1/ www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/p... via @statnews.com
- The Plan B--for Russell Vought at OMB and Jay Bhattacharya at NIH-is for biomedical research in the US to be brought to its knees and repopulated by MAHA cranks and other ideologues. Why would I say this? 2/
- Because they have said it. 3/ sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...
- Vought is a special kind of sociopath. Read @juliametraux.bsky.social's piece from last February. This man is just a destructive zealot. 4/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- So, American biomedical research is on the verge of collapse. Yes, many of us continue to do our work, but the funding crisis, the arbitrary termination of grants, is real and it will shutter lab after lab. 5/ www.statnews.com/american-sci...
- So get ready for a world without American science, scientists, for a generation or a rump version, which is a severely diminished remnant of its former self. 6/
- The real Plan B--is to get rid of all these people. Send them packing as fast as possible. Sue them in court again and again. Protest. Make your members of Congress feel the heat for this BS. 7/
- And universities--where many of us make our homes, do our work--have largely cowered or complied. There could be concerted collective action, but most have decided to lay low or go along to get along That is not a strategy. 8/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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- From Stalin to Mussolini, Orban to Putin, science and universities more broadly have been either destroyed or yoked to the needs and ideologies of the state. Wake up and smell the coffee folks. Trump, Vought, RFK Jr., "Podcast Jay" are coming for you and have been for a year. 9/
- It's time to step up. It has been for a while. end/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
