GOOD. This weekend my LinkedIn was melting down after the NIH made this announcement. Many outlets (such as this bad take by WaPo: (washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02…) allege that the federal government immediately turned off grant dollars to life-saving research. Not true at all. /1 x.com/NIH/status/188… This style of alarmist journalism requires its reader to 1) have no clue how sponsored research works, and 2) hold the assumption that 100% of that funding goes directly to lifesaving interventions. /2