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This needs to be said, with Trump's cutting of College Basic Research Funds, many of these great breakthroughs will occur in other Countries. The US is/was the lead in biotech, it is now giving up its lead. That means one of the US largest industries, employing many with high pay, will shrink, due to US policies. In a few years it may not exist unless funding is restored soon. I personally know people who's grants have been cancelled due to these cuts.

But, glad to see other Countries funding their research. I wonder in face of one of the largest blunders made by the US, are they increasing funds ?



There’s another connection here, between trump and huntingtons.

Folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote the song “old man trump” about fred trump (donny’s dad), while suffering from huntingtons and living in a building owned by fred.


Even more: mRNA. Trump is trying to kill mRNA research because he sees it as tied to the politics of COVID.

Good science is not political. Politicians making it so are idiots at best and evil at worst. See also "Hanlon's Razor"




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