Since we're talking about funding of absurd research by NIH and other federal agencies, the funded scientists:
- watching flies fuck
- giving rats massages
- spending years digging into why jellyfish glow
- tracking penguin poop from space
- using horseshoe crab blood
And what did the taxpayer get?
Watching flies mate led to the sterile insect technique, eradicating the screwworm fly from North America, saving the livestock industry over $20 billion and reducing beef prices by 5%.
Oct 7, 2020 • 14 tweets • 11 min read
Unprecedented statements from scientists & scientific institutions on the Trump administration's handling of the Covid19 pandemic and the 2020 election, a 🧵:
Starting with the most recent editorial from @NEJM
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The @NEJM editors:
"Our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs."
Universities filing amicus briefs/lawsuits against new ICE regs by my count:
- Cornell
- Dartmouth
- Georgetown
- Harvard
- Hopkins (forthcoming)
- Michigan State
- MIT
- Northeastern
- Northwestern
- Penn
- Princeton
- Purdue
- Stanford
- U of California
- UMich
- USC
- Yale
Williams College
