Spoke to a scientist friend today and asked him about Trump’s anti-science campaign & his attacks on universities?
He replied, I don’t think Americans realize that even if we somehow stopped Trump now, he’s already set the USA back at least 20-30 years in scientific research. And given he still has 3 more years, we may not recover from this for half a century or more.
This Economist data is from 6 months ago. You can imagine how much worse it is now.😳
@QasimRashid Qasim's friend got part of it a bit wrong: some of us certainly realized it months ago. Why risk your career by coming here when they might pull the rug out from under you based on the phase of the moon or whatnot?
Then you get people leaving. I'm going to recommend to my nephew that he makes sure his kids learn other languages in case they have to leave to get a job in whatever field they decide they'd like to work in.
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I wrote to the local member, highlighting the fact America made great advances after taking in the scientific community after ww2.
Now Australia could pick up world class talent and profit from the state America has got itself into. We should be increasing funding and opening up positions to grab these people and their knowledge.
The letter I got back, came from the minister of immigration. We can't be picking favorites counties for visas, was the reply.
No vision.
Not that we treat our own researchers, academics and scientists better.
In the #ThreeBodyProblem, the aliens prior to invading earth, stop human science, primarly basic research, prior to invasion...
...Has anyone tried to pull off the space-latex-skinsuit from the entity we know as tRump?
@n_dimension @QasimRashid I think there's something to that; at the start of Trump's first term I kept flashing back on the Men in Black scene where the alien peels off his skin suit and thinking "that's what's inside..."
Since day one of this term it's been clear to me that the damage to science, research, education, everything America has excelled at, will be incalculable, setting us back for far longer than Joe McCarthy managed with his wrecking ball.
@n_dimension
Such a good question!: “Has anyone tried to pull off the space-latex-skinsuit from the entity we know as tRump?”
I notice Putin has had new plumped up cheeks inserted again. Looks like the Ruzzian ones only last about a year. Or was that one of his many doubles? (“Only his hairdresser knows for sure”, to quote a very old ad…)
Spoke to a friend, former VP R&D at a major pharma company, and he said the same thing. The dismantling of the entire government/industry drug approval process is something we will never recover from.
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I said/posted months ago that the American Century ended on Jan 20, 2025 (if not on Debacle Day last November), though I admit I didn't yet grasp just how quick and widespread the damage would be.
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"Does this mean that the U.S. is losing the race with China for global leadership? No, I think that race is essentially over. Even if Trump and his team of saboteurs lose power in 2028, everything I see says that by then America will have fallen so far behind that it’s unlikely that we will ever catch up."
Trump/MAGA say MERICA FIRST! but their actions are very much America last.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-overtaken-america
I'm sorry, but Italy??
I have friends who attempted having a research career in Italy and all but one have dropped out. It's economically and mentally drainingb and institutional funding is at an all-time low.
I'm very skeptic Italy can really attract scientists in these conditions.
@QasimRashid Make America Great Again was always about Make America 1825 again.
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My big wandering conference that rotates between institutes in Europe, Asia, and North America just opened up for hosting bids from the rest of the world for North America's turn in 2026. This is because none of the Canadians wanted to host, and there is a wide consensus that too many won't go to USA.
I will note that this is a community that is usually fine with going to China, there will be some that won't attend, but not nearly as toxic as USA under the Trump regime.
Ah, I see. I'm not sure if those are strictly anti-science policies, really. The graph posted here is about web views in the sciences for non-US only; I'd be curious to see this for global views.
I'm rather in favor of reforming a lot of the funding pipelines, project selection, and visa process.
I see. I never got the sense that RFK Jr. is against vaccinees in general, at least when he speaks about his views.
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