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In Opinion The system that turned Gila monster venom into GLP-1 drugs is being dismantled through research budget cuts, Jeff Coller writes in a guest essay. “Less support for scientists means strange questions no one will get to chase. Exploring those questions is how medicine advances.”

nyti.msOpinion | We Need to Keep Funding Weird ScienceScience turned a serendipitous finding about lizard venom into one of the most important drugs of the century, but that type of research is getting harder to do.

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Try to focus on the ballroom. Try to focus on the ballroom. Try to focus on the ballroom. Try to focus on the ballroom. Try to focus on the ballroom. Try to focus on the ballroom.

I am so tired of the demise of intellectualism. The people running the show never ask any questions- they just assume everyone else is stupid and the fact is they lack curiosity - Overall, people are not stupid

Dumbing down a populace to make AI more acceptable. Distracting with AI slop while the "real" AI crunches a data centers contents. Once the data centers are built, you're not voting them away.

I'm being saved from a liver transplant by a drug that was discovered because some researcher wondered why hibernating bears, in spite of fasting for long periods, don't get gallstones.

It's weird how this treasonous administration keeps defunding the leading sciences of our age. Also weird that the Russians, who are the main beneficiaries of this treason, are also working in this case to benefit China who is daily surpassing American science with its own.