Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
There is one area of US government science that they have not come for yet, the crown jewels of American science, the 17 DOE National Labs including: Ames, Brookhaven, Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, etc. The rumor here is that DOGE is coming this month.
May 5, 2025 14:34I am now told that the rumor about DOGE coming this month is false.
