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"Eight months into Donald Trump’s second presidency of the United States, truth
and science are again under attack – with global consequences. USAID, which
tackled HIV, TB, malaria and child malnutrition is gone. Funding has been
withdrawn from GAVI, a public–private global alliance that helps buy vaccines
for the world’s poorest children. Malnourished children are already dying.
Besides these brutal consequences, the scientific machine that delivered
America’s scientific and technological dominance is being ruthlessly
dismantled. Any research project that mentions diversity, equity and inclusion
(DEI), climate change or addresses the causes of vaccine hesitancy is a prime
target. But even US space science, once the pride of the nation, is facing “an
extinction-level event,” according to the US Planetary Society.
Across the spectrum of science, some 4,000 research grants have been cancelled.
Unbelievably, bird-flu experts were fired in the middle of an outbreak. That
was topped last May by cancelling a US$600M grant to the company Moderna to
develop an mRNA vaccine against bird flu.
And this Tuesday, US$500 million was cancelled for 22 more projects developing
mRNA vaccines. Bear in mind that under Operation Warp Speed, the first Trump
administration funded the development of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine against COVID.
Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech both delivered mRNA vaccines in the record time of
less than a year, winning mRNA vaccine technology a Nobel Prize in 2023.
It’s not just American science that’s being dismantled."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
