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Musk "wants" to cut research? The DOGE Apocalypse and DHS immigration crackdowns have decimated this country's ability to conduct science research.

A vacationing scientist stumbled upon what lead to the PCR test and the rapid antigen test for RSV. And rapid antigen tests used for covid. www.nps.gov/articles/the...

God bless those scientists and gila monsters. 🙌

See: @mazzucatom.bsky.social's The Entrepreneurial State and subsequent work ❤️

At the very least, these Corpos should pay hefty taxes in return for all the profits derived from TAXPAYER supported research. Also as thank you for govt grants supporting their Corpos (Tesla? SpaceX?)

There are proposals to change this. One of them is to have the government contract with companies to produce medicines that are patent-free, and whose research results are immediately made public. In this system, the government would pay upfront for 100% of the research, including controlled trials.

Poison oft cuts two ways.

the vast majority of medical breakthroughs in this country are based in some way on publicly funded science. pharma companies and researchers at private institutions rely on VA/NIH research at every level

Fk Nazi musk!

yep!

Yeah, most people don’t realize that basic research is what’s funded by the government. NIH and NSF. None of that’s done by private industry. Because most of it’s done for academic interest and not for money. It’s private industry that uses the knowledge gained from academic interest to make money.

@danieljdrucker.bsky.social

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Indeed

The same Elon who cut USAID, causing a million or so deaths prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Thank you, Senator Kennedy.

Ha, I was just going to say... remember when Sarah Palin, yes the same one who has a son w/ Down's Syndrome, mocked government spending "for fruit fly research in France!"?

LMAO

the spending is always some not-even-a-rounding-error amount, too

"And then they will talk about it on blooskee"

Nearly every major medical and scientific advancement was either done by the government or funded by the government.

Appetite suppressants are all well and good, but what we really need is a cure for insatiable capitalist greed.

it's the part of this whole thing that infuriates me. it's not just that they don't know what they're doing, it's that they've had direct, obvious, public, colossal examples of science research leading to incredible breakthroughs and they think it's just TV dinners for brown kids in africa.

Oh yeah, it’s got everything; natural basis for medicine in a fragile ecosystem, R&D that only a government would conduct and fund, massive positive human health outcomes.

Send him to MARS!

i wish john mccain's stupid ass was alive to see this nah actually nevermind

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That title is a mad lib.