Blog#246-6/7/25
SCIENCE IS THE ENEMY
By
Richard Davis
We now live in world where scientific inquiry, research and the development of innovation and things to make our lives better have become the enemy. The reason is clear. When someone does not understand something and when they are primarily fueled by ego and the abuse of power they will work to squash what they are not capable of understanding.
Trump has no clue about the details of research programs that he is defunding. He and his team have decided that research is mostly conducted by left wing liberals who are promoting the support of the LBGTQ community and everything that he personally finds distasteful.
Albert Einstein came to the U.S. to take a job at Princeton as Hitler was rising to power. As a Jew he knew that he could not stay in Germany and he stayed in the U.S. and became a citizen. In 1933 he noted that, “As long as I have any choice in the matter I will live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law are the rule.”
The was the U.S. in 1933. In 2025 we no longer have tolerance and equality and scientists at all levels, including the lot of geniuses now doing research are trying to figure out if it is worth staying in this country while they lose their funding and no longer have the ability to carry out research that is critical to the progress of humanity.
There will be a brain drain in this country and the U.S. is starting to become a place where scientific inquiry has become so politicized that any hope for new cures for disease or drug development is quickly dying.
The American Association of Medical Colleges has stated that, “The administration’s announcement that it plans to cut federal support of biomedical research by drastically reducing reimbursement of research costs related to peer-reviewed grants from the NIH will diminish the nation’s research capacity, slowing scientific progress and depriving patients, families, and communities across the country of new treatments, diagnostics, and preventative interventions.”
It’s worth noting some of the facts that the New York Times has recently presented. “In all, the N.I.H., the world’s premier public funder of medical research, has ended 1,389 awards and delayed sending funding to more than 1,000 additional projects, The Times found. From the day Mr. Trump was inaugurated through April, the agency awarded $1.6 billion less compared with the same period last year, a reduction of one-fifth. (N.I.H. records for May are not yet comparable.) The impacts extend far beyond studies on politically disfavored topics and Ivy League universities like Columbia or Harvard. The disruptions are affecting research on Alzheimer’s, cancer and substance use, to name just a few, and studies at public institutions across the country, including in red states that backed Mr. Trump.”
If I was a scientist who spent years getting educated and worked in a lab on cures for diseases or on drug development it would seem tempting to find a country where those hard earned talents and experience could continue to be put to use. I suspect that many countries are now in the process of recruiting scientists willing to uproot their lives so they can continue the work that makes their lives meaningful.
It won’t take long before the Trump led dumbing down of America will decimate universities and every institution that has relied on government funding to make the world a better place. Are we powerless to stop the Idiot In Chief?
Hopefully, the courts will have something to say on these matters.
