Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted.
“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations.
For scale, hellldemon marjory tailor green was recently praised for tabling a bill to cut 500M from israel funding.
Out of the standing budget of at least $3.8B + $8.7B.
Science is fucking cheap.
This is why I keep saying if any other country wants to take our place as top research producer it would take like 2 years and some change you can find in the couch cushions.
In the context of a country’s budget, it would be basically free to build a few big research centers and offer every US scientist a visa, a job, and funding for any cancelled grants.
Just cancel your most recent order for fighter jets and boom, it’s paid for, congratulations you’re now the world leader in scientific research.