World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

Saturday, May 31, 2025

With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.

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(This is the end of American exceptionism) Top scientists are cutting staff at their labs. Postdocs are leaving the country. Here's how the Trump cuts are playing out at the University of Washington. www.nbcnews.com/science/inno ...

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This is the world that MAGA wants: no scientists to make them feel inferior; no education to make them feel inferior.

The staggering thing is, knowing many MAGA, there's no reason to think that they're stupid people.

But they are wounded emotionally and don't have the personal or social concepts to understand that.

They only know that they feel really, really bad and that SOMEONE must be responsible for that.

The culture they were born in does not teach introspection or self-understanding.

If they're not understanding themselves, they sure as hell aren't going to be understanding other people.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-31 09:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Such brilliant governance. And especially glad that RFK Jr., aka The Two Legged Grey Squirrel, saved us 160,000,000 by canceling the Moderna contract for a bird flu vaccine. He himself could really use a brain worm vaccine though.

#2 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-05-31 11:04 AM | Reply

Fat Donnie Loser just wants to burn down the country.
He has no ------- idea what he's doing.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-31 11:26 AM | Reply

I was once told by a manager I shall not name in a federal agency I shall not identify that she was tired of all these cost saving innovative ideas we were always coming up with. It was causing her too much work.

"There will be no more innovation!" She said once in a conference call. (Conference calls were all we could afford at that time because we had no budget because Congress was fighting over the budget again).

This was when I knew my time with the government was just about over. I retired shortly thereafter.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-31 12:26 PM | Reply

If I was 30 - 40 years younger, I would bail the US.

The downfall has begun.

#5 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-05-31 05:40 PM | Reply

France is nice. Everyone speaks English

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-01 01:46 PM | Reply

Fortunately US bioweapons research in secret overseas labs will not be affected, as they are funded by black-budget money.

#7 | Posted by cabron_loco at 2025-06-01 02:10 PM | Reply