[rashkov]

Zoom out and you’ll see that there is a broad attack against science institutions going on right now. RFK is just one aspect.

NIH funding down 60% compared with one year ago: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/report-us-scientists-...

UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/umass-disbands-its-en...

Not to mention the defunding of anything to do with climate change.

[rashkov]

It’s a big jump to assume competence in targeting half of all science funding. As you saw in my link above they eliminated an entire graduate class of biomedical researchers. That’s a few dozen lifetimes of research that won’t be done now, delaying breakthroughs

[jfengel]

Zero effort was put into deciding what is wasteful. They just cancelled everything.