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Sunday, February 09, 2025

NIH Slashes Medical Research Funding

An abrupt Friday afternoon announcement from the National Institutes of Health that it would slash support for indirect research costs paid to universities, medical centers, and other grant recipients left academics bewildered and deeply concerned that the policy change would grind scientific progress to a halt.

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-- Matthew Facciani (@matthewfacciani.bsky.social) February 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM

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This has been done because Donald Trump wants Americans to live in a Third World country, and to suffer and die.

The man is insane. He has always behaved that way but now he is getting worse.

What he did here is a very, very bad thing.

MAGA suffers alongside the rest of us; and I suspect that it suffers first.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 09:49 AM

If physical suffering and death don't matter to you MAGA, reflect that this is one more way that Donald hastens the Trump Recession.

If dying of measles can't capture your imagination, perhaps the prospect of permanently not having eggs and hamburger will.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 09:51 AM

Well, seeing as they had a slush fund that had our tax dollars "accidentally" kill millions of people ... they'll learn to make do with less.

#3 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 10:20 AM

Also remember when some of you were staring enough Republican's died from the taxpayer funded pandemic that Democrats would have a permanent majority? Good times lolz

#4 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 10:21 AM

Stating*

#5 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 10:21 AM

"seeing as they had a slush fund..."

Objection, your honor. Facts not in evidence.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-09 10:23 AM

#3 | Posted by Bluewaffles
#4 | Posted by Bluewaffles
#5 | Posted by Bluewaffles

hahahahahahahaha!

fact free posting!

#7 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-02-09 10:28 AM

Danforth, as Pride month Rsty says ... swallow it glurg glurg glurg

#8 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 10:29 AM

Keep swallowing some more ...

#9 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 10:32 AM

The rancid orange pedo is eager to bring back his mass graves that were visible from space.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 10:33 AM

And some more ...

www.reuters.com

#11 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 10:33 AM

The-------------'s mass graves are a testament to his toxic legacy.

www.reuters.com

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 10:39 AM

Funding tax cuts for billionaires is hard work.

#13 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-09 10:41 AM

You can thank the NIH and Lord Fauci there Rein, "your tax dollars at work!"

#14 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 10:42 AM

Thank the orange pedo who pushed fish tank cleaner and horse paste. Bin Laden's wildest dreams couldn't match the carnage inflicted by Putin's bitch.

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 10:46 AM

#14 | Posted by Bluewaffles

You're so cute when you try to be self-righteous.

You want to punish Fauci for some alleged crime by destroying the entire NIH.

But you want to help kill cancer patients while you do it.

Well, as a person who has watched people die of cancer.

--, you miserable MAGA barbarian.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 10:52 AM

#14 | Posted by Bluewaffles

We have MEASLES outbreaks in Texas.

Effing, --------- MEASLES.

This is YOUR culture at work.

Don't bother to cry over any dead children.

They weren't aborted.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 10:54 AM

Thank the orange pedo who pushed fish tank cleaner and horse paste.

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

At least 50 MAGA died because Donald and BLUE told them to drink bleach.

They were told to drink effing bleach.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 10:56 AM

If any poster here fell under the heading of "Russian troll bot", waffle-boy would be a leading candidate.

#19 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-02-09 10:57 AM

Fauci tried to keep us safe and you Republicans crapped all over him.

#20 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-09 11:01 AM

Well Zed, the measles outbreak can most likely be traced back to all the third world "migrants" Kamala and Joe let in to the country. Dignity is on the ballot, but so are diseases we took out decades ago thanks to the influx of illegals.

#21 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 11:03 AM

The measles outbreak is due to the paste-eating dumfux who won't get vaccinated.

#22 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 11:06 AM

Sure rein ... this overall topic is like shooting fish in a barrel. You guys really should do research before idiotically type away ...

#23 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 11:09 AM

Nice try, ----------. What a ----.

According to DSHS, eight of the cases are among school-aged children and two cases are under the age of 5, adding that seven of the patients have been hospitalized.

Local health officials said all of the cases are unvaccinated and residents of Gaines County as DSHS is working with South Plains Public Health District and Lubbock Public Health to investigate the outbreak.

www.newsweek.com

#24 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 11:13 AM

Well Zed, the measles outbreak can most likely be traced back to all the third world

#21 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Yep. A county in west Texas.

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 11:17 AM

Well Zed, the measles outbreak can most likely be traced back to all the third world "migrants"

#21 | Posted by Bluewaffles

And not to indingeous white tribes who have a cultural value not to vaccinate...

Sure. You bet.

What part of this country and do you have kids?

And were they "home-schooled" so you wouldn't have to get you lazy ass up in the morning.

#26 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 11:21 AM

What part of this country do you live in and do you have kids?

And were they "home-schooled" so you wouldn't have to get your lazy ass up in the morning.

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 11:22 AM

1 | Posted by Bluewaffles

I live in west Texas and I have had more than one conversation with people who refuse vaccinations.

These are some of the same people who see "migrants" WHENEVER a brown man is stupid enough to walk on a city street.

As I have mentioned before, these are not stupid people.

EXCEPT when it comes to MAGA theology.

Then they're a pack of raging loons, tempting death at every turn.

I know some of them wo DIED from not being vaccinated.

COVID. They went hard, nasty, and fast.

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 11:27 AM

"the measles outbreak can most likely be traced back to all the third world "migrants" Kamala and Joe let in to the country."

It's more likely that you are lying and making ---- up as usual.

From your cdc link:

Although persons in the community affected by this outbreak had recently arrived in the United States, the index patient's arrival in Chicago months before illness onset suggests that the disease was acquired locally.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-09 11:27 AM

| Posted by Bluewaffles

So why, exactly, does BLUE have a problem with medical research to prevent disease and death in the United States?

You're not from here, are you?

#30 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-09 11:29 AM

Posted by Zed

Commendable effort, but, there really is no upside to engaging attention-seeking dirtbags who probably do not even reside in this country.

#31 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-02-09 11:32 AM

Was bluewaffleidiot born this stupid? Or did they work at it?

#32 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-09 12:02 PM

Sorry your funding got cut JPW :/

#33 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-02-09 12:15 PM

"the index patient's arrival in Chicago months before illness onset suggests that the disease was acquired locally."

So...Blue is basically pretending the science regarding length of dormancy doesn't exist.

#34 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-09 12:18 PM

#34 | Posted by Danforth

He's not "pretending" anything.

He is goading you into a response.

Attempt to not comply.

#35 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-02-09 12:23 PM

"Sorry your funding got cut JPW :/"

No you are not. You are not sorry about any of it.

Not yet. As long as they don't come for you and yours.

But until then ... you can GFY. And then when they do come for you.. you can GFY.

#36 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-09 12:25 PM

"the measles outbreak can most likely be traced back to all the third world "migrants""

You'd be laughed out of a Trustee's meeting. Permanent exile to the children's table.

#37 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-02-09 12:26 PM

You can't spend all the money you wind up stealing.

#38 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-09 12:35 PM

According to this source the cuts are aimed at indirect costs - overhead. And the cuts bring university costs down to the same 15% indirect cap that private institutions receive.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

#39 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-02-09 12:40 PM

Hopefully every last stump-toothed MAGAt who voted for the morbidly obese orange pedo bleeds out from Ebola.

#40 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 12:58 PM

, unvaccinated travelers are causing measles outbreaks in 2025. Measles is a highly contagious disease that can easily spread from one country to another.
Explanation
Travelers: Unvaccinated travelers can bring measles into the United States from other countries.
Outbreaks: Measles outbreaks can occur in communities with unvaccinated people.
Vaccination: The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine protects against measles. Two doses of the vaccine are recommended to ensure immunity.
What's happening in 2025?
As of February 2025, 14 measles cases were reported in five US states.
The majority of measles cases in the US are in unvaccinated people who became infected while traveling internationally.
Measles outbreaks are happening in many regions of the world.

#41 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-09 01:28 PM

I don't work for a fed funded entity, dips^*%.

#42 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-09 02:29 PM

According to this source the cuts are aimed at indirect costs - overhead.

Which covers facilities and admin costs.

Most large research institutions have core facilities funded by this money that allows researchers to access equipment and methods that are waaaaaaaay too expensive to get by themselves.

Not to mention all the behind the scenes folks that manage budgets, projects, facilities maintenance ect.

#43 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-09 02:43 PM

Katie Britt Howls Like Stuck Pig After She Sees NIH Cuts' Impact in State

talkingpointsmemo.com

Does she howl in that annoying fundie baby voice?

#44 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-09 03:25 PM

Well Zed, the measles outbreak can most likely be traced back to ...
#21 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

AntiVaxxers.

Your racism doesn't run any points here.

Neither does you roundness for ignoring facts, like how you rightwing morons aren't vaccinating your kids anymore, because Covid because so overly politicized.

#45 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-09 03:53 PM

Cancer is woke.

#46 | Posted by cbob at 2025-02-09 10:22 PM

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