Misguided Misstatements Continue to Dismantle Biomedical Research in the U.S.

The peasant cannot, and will not, coexist with knowledge.

Even if N.I.H. research ends in the US, China and other competently run countries will backfill and the world as a whole will not get impacted. I don’t see the big deal about the Trump administration gutting science in terms of global impact. Now, for US citizens, it might be more troubling but they will simply need to rely on the rest of the world.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433410 for context.