Dark Maga 73 NIH If you think that it will lay for long-term research then I think you are not aware of how most non-pharma research is conducted - in academia through teams of MDs and PhDs working together. Cutting these costs will kill academic research programs. I am conservative and am a

I can confirm the NIH is still working well enough to score my R01 terribly 😂🤪

Today NIH employees are being fired en masse. A few populist elites will cheer, I am not. Over the last twenty years, I have been impressed by their dedication and passion to advance science in a nonpartisan manner. Today is a very sad day.

holy shit is this true?

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

Sheryl Crow says she has sold her Tesla and donated the proceeds to NPR. “My parents always said... you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by

You think measles is benign until you've seen a case of SSPE - an incurable complication of measles which causes kids to develop dementia, seizures and death. It's preventable by the vaccine. Anti vaxxers are deadly. And now they are in charge.

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

Awkward. Trump administration wants to un-fire some nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

Because of conventional medicine -Your mother didn't die in childbirth -You didn't get polio as a kid -You've never seen smallpox -Your friend with type 1 diabetes is alive because of of insulin -You recovered from that infection because of antibiotics Science saves lives

Francis Collins and a team of researchers identified the cystic fibrosis gene over 30 years ago, and because of people like him I’m alive today with kids of my own (and able to enjoy a weekend trip to my favorite place on earth… Alta… and am healthy enough to enjoy it).

I think it says something that so many scientists noticed Pubmed was down on a random Saturday afternoon in March Scientists noticed because: (1) we rely on Pubmed to look up info and (2) because scientists are working around the clock to solve health problems. Keep us working.

Even for people who appreciate the value of free markets, Bezos's new editorial policy for WaPo is idiotic. 100% of affluent capitalist democracies have regulation & social spending, and for good reasons: They save lives in the workplace & highways, clean up air & waterways,

Hear me out: We should study the link between organic food consumption and autism.

Survival rates for childhood leukaemia over the last decades Staggering progress Science did this Not wellness. Not functional medicine. Not neutraceuticals. Not ivermectin. Science.

Beware the slippery slope to Gestapo. Freedom of speech is not granted by the government. Non-citizens in America have freedom of speech.

Laura Goodman was close to finalizing a prototype of a new test that can detect any tick-borne disease. Unlike some current tests, it could provide results even before symptoms occur – and even for unknown diseases. That’s important, because ticks around the world can