makes sense But we are in a #antiscience era Where #billionaires spend there time cheating the cards the number of cards the color of the cards the value on the cards the drawing on the cards the shape of the cards the rules of the games I try to react at my scale I did react there I was wrong
So it is sort of... irritating to read, when you know what an algorithm is And it is also irritating to read, when thinking that the billionaires corrupting the world are mostly #antiscience Thus my reaction - but I agree LLM could be a dangerous tool, and can use stolen data, even private data

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

NIH grant awards are again lagging far behind historical averages, analysis shows

Nearly halfway into the 2026 fiscal year, the NIH is far behind on grant spending, new data show

STAT

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

@ProPublica The #TrumpAdministration is a bag full of low-grade #morons. I hope they get schwacked by falling space debris 😡
#MAGA #Idiots #WorstPresidentEver #SpaceJunk #Trump #VonSchitzenPants #AntiScience

What could go wrong installing an anti-science conspiracy theorist in charge of the world's largest public funder of biomedical research?

#AntiScience

https://thegodlessliberal.blogspot.com/2026/02/trump-installs-anti-vaxxer-covid.html

Trump Installs Anti-Vaxxer, COVID-Truther, And CDC Critic As The Acting Director Of The CDC

Donald Trump has called on Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who already directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to serve as acting director of...

FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of ‘anti-vaccine agenda’

Agency says application rejected due to lack of ‘adequate and well controlled’ trial, but experts say ‘they’re just coming up with reasons’

The Guardian

"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/

#USA #Boston #BioTech #Trump #Austerity #AntiScience

How Trump administration funding cuts put Massachusetts research at risk

In a first-of-its-kind survey, the Globe asked hundreds of scientists about the impact of federal funding cuts.

The Boston Globe