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Axulus said:
RFK Jr. Has announced that in his first week he is going to call in all the department heads of the HHS and going to tell them all to halt drug development and study of infectious diseases for 8 years. He wants them to focus on chronic diseases instead. This potentially means the FDA halting all drug approvals. And stopping _all_ research on infectious disease? Are you fucking serious?

Not only will we lose out on potential breakthroughs, but we will lose out massively to China, to Europe, etc who will continue investing in new development and research and get both the benefits and the competitive edge against American companies. You can bet the most talented researchers an America are going to pack up their bags and head to countries where their research is supported and jobs will be more plentiful in these areas.

Where are the people screaming to get rid of government red tape and bureaucracy on this one? Where is the America First crowd when it comes to RFK Jr. damaging America and ceding our pharmaceutical industry and infectious disease research to Europe and China?
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My son had conversations with many of his fellow PhD candidates the day after the election. Most of them are from other countries, and most were intending to stay here to work. Not any more. Not a single one of them. The brain drain is going to hurt for decades. He was also considering a relocation, but figures that so many people already in the private sector will also bail that his job opportunities may have actually improved.
 
hurtinbuckaroo said:
Axulus said:
RFK Jr. Has announced that in his first week he is going to call in all the department heads of the HHS and going to tell them all to halt drug development and study of infectious diseases for 8 years. He wants them to focus on chronic diseases instead. This potentially means the FDA halting all drug approvals. And stopping _all_ research on infectious disease? Are you fucking serious?

Not only will we lose out on potential breakthroughs, but we will lose out massively to China, to Europe, etc who will continue investing in new development and research and get both the benefits and the competitive edge against American companies. You can bet the most talented researchers an America are going to pack up their bags and head to countries where their research is supported and jobs will be more plentiful in these areas.

Where are the people screaming to get rid of government red tape and bureaucracy on this one? Where is the America First crowd when it comes to RFK Jr. damaging America and ceding our pharmaceutical industry and infectious disease research to Europe and China?
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My son had conversations with many of his fellow PhD candidates the day after the election. Most of them are from other countries, and most were intending to stay here to work. Not any more. Not a single one of them. The brain drain is going to hurt for decades. He was also considering a relocation, but figures that so many people already in the private sector will also bail that his job opportunities may have actually improved.
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Pre-emptive self deportations?
 
Oh yeah, and Hitler wasn't a high IQ person. He didn't listen to his generals, and invaded the Soviet Union, which was a massive blunder. Also failed to develop the atomic bomb first. Doesn't seem super high IQ to me.
 
Shadowy Man said:
hurtinbuckaroo said:
Axulus said:
RFK Jr. Has announced that in his first week he is going to call in all the department heads of the HHS and going to tell them all to halt drug development and study of infectious diseases for 8 years. He wants them to focus on chronic diseases instead. This potentially means the FDA halting all drug approvals. And stopping _all_ research on infectious disease? Are you fucking serious?

Not only will we lose out on potential breakthroughs, but we will lose out massively to China, to Europe, etc who will continue investing in new development and research and get both the benefits and the competitive edge against American companies. You can bet the most talented researchers an America are going to pack up their bags and head to countries where their research is supported and jobs will be more plentiful in these areas.

Where are the people screaming to get rid of government red tape and bureaucracy on this one? Where is the America First crowd when it comes to RFK Jr. damaging America and ceding our pharmaceutical industry and infectious disease research to Europe and China?
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My son had conversations with many of his fellow PhD candidates the day after the election. Most of them are from other countries, and most were intending to stay here to work. Not any more. Not a single one of them. The brain drain is going to hurt for decades. He was also considering a relocation, but figures that so many people already in the private sector will also bail that his job opportunities may have actually improved.
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Pre-emptive self deportations?
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Pretty much. No reason to stick around if a bunch of stooges have control for four years, and intend to eviscerate the country's research capabilities.
 
TSwizzle said:
This is the price you have to pay for a democrat party that foisted an unelectable candidate that offered nothing on the voters and all that went on before you got to this stage.
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I'm doing just fine mate. It is you who is fucked because you can't stand a President who cackles.

Start packing your bags, son.
 
Swiz, if you get booted are you going to vacate your place in Santa Monica? Is it a rental, or are you going to rent it out after you leave?
 
Elixir said:
Swiz, if you get booted are you going to vacate your place in Santa Monica? Is it a rental, or are you going to rent it out after you leave?
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Don't be stupid. Trump will sequester it and give it to Leon for some pie in the sky Mars bullshit.
 
Patooka said:
Elixir said:
Swiz, if you get booted are you going to vacate your place in Santa Monica? Is it a rental, or are you going to rent it out after you leave?
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Don't be stupid. Trump will sequester it and give it to Leon for some pie in the sky Mars bullshit.
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It's starting to look like Leon is angling for his new bestest buddy to kill the EV tax credits in such a way that will allow Tesla to grab even more market share.


Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of Trump's biggest backers and the world's richest person, said in July that killing the subsidy might slightly hurt Tesla sales but would be "devastating" to its U.S. EV competitors, which include legacy automakers such as General Motors
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Because that's "free market" capitalism. The legacy automakers will be able to pivot (as they already have ICE vehicles to keep selling) but some of the newer (and Tesla competitor) EV only companies like Rivian and Lucid will be hurt even more.

Now...who thinks Muskrat's new "efficiency" project is going to recommend that NASA be completely de-funded in favor of handing everything over to Space X? Anyone? Anyone?
 
GenesisNemesis said:
Oh yeah, and Hitler wasn't a high IQ person. He didn't listen to his generals, and invaded the Soviet Union, which was a massive blunder. Also failed to develop the atomic bomb first. Doesn't seem super high IQ to me.
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I've no particular need to defend Hitler, but . . .

High IQ is NOT necessarily incompatible with poor decision making.

As for the A-bomb, America needed huge funding, many top experts, some secret science, and good luck and still did not have a Bomb in time to affect the war in Europe. German spending on advanced weapons was focused on the V-2 rocket. Whatever Hitler's involvement, Germany could not have won the A-bomb race.
 
Swammerdami said:
America needed huge funding, many top experts, some secret science, and good luck and still did not have a Bomb in time to affect the war in Europe.
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America only developed the A-bomb because the British bomb project, codenamed "Tube Alloys"was considered too valuable to keep in range of Luftwaffe bombing, so it was moved to the USA.

Under the terms of the Quebec Agreement, the technology resulting from the project, now called the Manhattan Project, was to be shared between Britain and the US; However Truman reneged on the deal when he saw how powerful the resulting weapon actually was, and decided not to share with anyone (except the Soviet Union, who had shared the details on their own initiative and without asking for permission).

The British responded by building their own A-bomb, with blackjack and hookers and then their own H-bomb, after which the Americans relented and resumed information sharing.

Hitler never got anywhere close to developing atomic weapons, partly because he derided atomic physics as "Jewish science", and partly because the physicists he did have, particularly Heisenberg, deliberately downplayed the prospects of ever developing a workable bomb.

Of course, nobody in the Allied camp knew this, and they were very reasonably terrified that he might get there first.
 
ZiprHead said:
Shadowy Man said:
Loren Pechtel said:
starwater said:
I think my favorite is that gun violence is caused by anti-depressants. :image:
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Unfortunately, this one might have grain of truth. One particular anti-depressant, not all of them.
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We should probably regulate anti-depressants more because if we can save even one life this way it’ll be worth it.
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Don't you go fucking with my anti depressant. I finally found one that actually works.
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Well I figured since regulating guns to lower gun violence doesn’t make any sense then regulating the anti-depressants is the obvious solution.
 
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