The gutting of American science & scientific pre-eminence continues:
"As of March 3, the... [NIH] had doled out 74% fewer competitive, or new, awards than the average for the same period in the 2021-2024 fiscal years, according to an analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins. The monetary value of those awards so far this year is 62% below the average for those previous years." And the funding that does happen is renewals, not new grants.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/17/nih-grant-funding-slowdown-new-awards-training-grants/
#ScienceMatters #antiscience #NIH
Melody Schreiber: Officials ‘missed 99% of data’ before ending #Covid vaccine recommendation, memos reveal. US based Covid vaccine guidance for #children and pregnant people on ideology instead of evidence, critics say.
#vaccines #pregnancy #RFK #HHS #antivax #antiscience #health
What could go wrong installing an anti-science conspiracy theorist in charge of the world's largest public funder of biomedical research?
https://thegodlessliberal.blogspot.com/2026/02/trump-installs-anti-vaxxer-covid.html
GOP death cult new exhibits A and B #antiscience #antivaxxers #ClimateChange #uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/fda-moderna-flu-vaccine
"A prominent cancer scientist is uprooting his Harvard University lab of two decades and moving it to Texas. A laid-off expert on aging abandoned academia for a more secure municipal research job in New York City. And a women’s health researcher, exhausted by the churn of immigration policies, made the wrenching decision to start over in Canada.
Their departures illustrate a sobering new reality: The Trump administration’s research funding cuts, abrupt policy shifts, and crackdown on immigration are driving a brain drain that threatens Massachusetts’ standing as a global hub of biomedical research, its economy – and the fight against major diseases such as childhood cancers, Alzheimer’s, and sickle cell.
To better understand the impact of the cuts, the Globe partnered with MassINC Polling Group. Together they reached out to nearly 4,000 scientists who received funding from the National Institutes of Health. Ultimately 367 completed the survey, which MassINC’s president, Steve Koczela, described as a solid response rate.
The results were stark: Over two-thirds said they recommend their students consider careers outside academia. The majority had delayed hiring in their labs, and one-third had laid off workers. More than one in six said they have lost researchers to institutions in other countries since Trump took office. Sixty-eight percent said funding cuts and federal policy changes had moderately or significantly reduced the scope of their work."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/metro/massachusetts-nih-cuts-biotech-scientists/