Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
New executive order puts all grants under political control
Submitted 2 months ago by MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/
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Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s easy for old people to be short-sighted. They don’t have to take responsibility for fucking things up in the long term, because they’ll be dead.
Stable governments should elect people that have a reason to plan long term.
btaf45@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
It’s actually much worse than that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’ve already got RFK doing that. The State Dept has also adopted pseudohistorical stances, and the Education Dept being cut is so they can teach those stances as fact.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
Like ivermectin?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Every fucking day these pieces of shit show us new and creative ways of destroying this country.
PushButton@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And everyday, they are getting away with it…
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
btaf45@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Traitorapist Trump and the MANGA crowd are gleefully enshitifying everything that made America great.
MAKE AMERICA NOT GREAT AGAIN
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If you don’t get rid of that government soon (the whole thing, the democrats are complicit), you won’t get rid of them anymore.
reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Trump literally controls the national guard. Good fucking luck…
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah it’s too late. All the delusional gun-slinging second-amendment-spoiting idiots can think they can overthrow a government somehow.
The last chance to stop this was 13th of June last year.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Fuck Trump. Fuck his supporters. I hope they all die.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
In the end the US will look like late stage USSR, with apparatchiks having to sign off everything, years of waiting time and mile long waiting times to have a chance to get whatever the supermarket currently has in stock, and it’s never what you actually need, so most people have to use facebook marketplace to barter goods
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look at the Pythia rat to see how badly this affects real science. Unreality makes it quite difficult to observe reality
FishFace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This doesn’t belong in this community, does it?
Guess Trump is OK with China being the dominant scientific force in the world though.
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 months ago
MIT gets plenty of grants.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I know people whose grants have been put on hold and these people don’t even know if they have health insurance anymore, since grant money pays for that too. This is wild.
memfree@piefed.social 2 months ago
Somewhere in there, Ars should have noted that this does not mean literally ALL grants, but all federal grants as defined in 2 CFR 200.1 (which isn't to say they won't change that definition).
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We will be going to floppy disks, fax machines, typewriters and snail mails
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 months ago
But they’re gonna kill the US post so you’ll have to pay more to ship by FedEx.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are going to make their own Post Office “Fox Post” and it will charge us ten times more
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Aka: a Politruk
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t understand. Congress is supposed to decide how we spend money and how much we tax. Why is the president doing those things?
TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because Congress is letting him.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
And the citizens are letting Congress do it.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Because the United States is a genuine dictatorship. The only thing that matters is spat out by royal decree.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Congress the rubberstamp org ?
Why do we even need that,
to sell positions has favour to the king ?
obviously nobody believes in that parasitic institution
Why do the Russians keep the Duma ?
To shove the edicts of the king
down the throat of the population ? The broken remains of the “country” need to face it
FEDUSA is dead
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
thats how the nazi ran thier congress, hitler has the congress rubber stamp, of course they both can make death threats agains tthem too.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not just this Congress rolling over to expose their bellies. The Legislative has been ceding power to the Executive for several decades, Republican and Democrat alike. They seem to think this is OK as their guy will get the power.
Having said that, I’ve never seen such cowardice. The Judicial is hanging in there, and yes, even this SCOTUS has voted against Trump. But our entire system is predicated on a 3-way balance of powers. Now that two of those powers are in absolute collusion, we’re collapsing.