jarnon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:54 pm
Larry Jameson wrote:Despite this, faculty across seven different schools received stop work orders last week on federally contracted research, amounting to approximately $175M. These contracts include research on preventing hospital-acquired infections, drug screening against deadly viruses, quantum computing, protections against chemical warfare, and student loan programs.
Oh, so I can see, it may not come from cancer research. Just other life-saving stuff.
It’s definitely important to make sure that swimmer never swims again, so schools know that if they let that happen, research dries up and people die.
What strikes me interesting about this whole chain of thought, is that people like BiT are okay with this, because they think cancer is a big conspiracy. They’re probably researching new ways to create cancer, right? So he think it’s a double win.
Those who exist in the reality-based world understand it’s different. Those of us who work in hospitals, where we see people dying of all sorts of disease know how vital research is, and how it’s not a conspiracy. Sometimes we’re just trying to do what we can to stay afloat emotionally as we work to keep our patients alive.
Cutting medical research because of Lia Thomas is a moral abortion.