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NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

wired.comDoctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIHLeading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

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I think I'd grown numb to all of the 'budget cutting' and the huge amount of damage it was doing. I don't have Parkinson's, but I do have a different neurological movement disease. This feels like a personal slap in the face, though I know the people affected don't matter to them at all.

The rich will still get all the medical treatment they want as they will be able to travel to whatever country picks up all of these researchers. But everyone else - sorry - if you get sick, if you get a disease, if another pandemic hits - your SOL. That's basically the message here.

This is when you wonder who has shares in companies that currently produce medications for things like Parkinson's. It's part crazy and part profit.

All of these people should look to Canada for employment. Canada should do whatever they need to do to hire them. What an amazing bargain. Also encourage any graduate students working on these cutting edge projects.

OMG that is truly terrible news. May the Resistance oust maga by using the legal system to challenge them, refuse to participate in their schemes, disrupt the economy with work stoppages, orgainze to build a strong solidarity against them and dismantle (maga) what makes them work.

Science saved Trump’s sorry ass when he had covid and Musk’s scalp when he went bald. Yet, they’re okay with the wickedness of Unkennedy, who not even science apparently can help.

Dr. Richard Youle was among at least 10 principal investigators who were fired as part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s devastating reduction of federal employees working in public health.

This is really bad, this is “the” Dr Richard Youle, look him up, this is a devastating loss. US lost its leaderships role in science, we are waiting to see which country steps up to the plate, US scientific advantage is a thing of the past.

Finally some progress is being made on curing this terrible disease and RFK Jr. brings it to a halt. Does he think cod liver oil can cure Parkinson's? He shouldn't be allowed to use the name Kennedy. He has shamed the memory of Jack, Bobby & Teddy.

This administration is so careless of its purging and firing of employees that many, if not most, of our finest minds are looking to other countries for jobs.

This was never about reducing federal spending, this is about Republicans who don't want the federal government to exist *at all* and this is them trying to accomplish that goal: end the United States of America. Destroy the union, finish the job they started in 1861.

Cancer research is crucial!"We are about to go home from our day in the ER. Aside from two periods of vomiting today (new symptom), no stroke detected, no shortage of electrolytes, but expanding tumor mass pressing on his veins/etc could cause issues that we'll discuss tomorrow with the oncologist."

He already crossed that line with his godawful response to COVID. So he's crossed it again. And the GOP and the media will not hold him accountable until a few of them start dropping like flies.

Not sure why it has not become ABUNDANTLY CLEAR: REPUBLICANS WANT THE POOREST & SICKEST DEAD. This is all by design--neglect you to death, you don't get to or stop collecting social security, cha-ching, early return to the earth, $ NOT PAID OUT. The party of $ will make it back at ANY COST. 🤨

Of course he was, why spend taxpayers dollars on medical research for a chronic disease that eventually kills all of those afflicted with it! Maybe "big balls" @ dodge can pick up the research slack now that all of the "know it all" woke scientist have been put in their place and laid off!

So when people like #MichaelJFox die or suffer, and all the men, women, and children like him... it will again be at Trump and Musk's doors. Not that they'll even notice. =bitter= #Parkinsons