mostly agree, but don’t think retractions will be enough to incentivize the change. Will need fed funders to drive
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mostly agree, but don’t think retractions will be enough to incentivize the change. Will need fed funders to drive
When's the last time you read a paper in your field and thought: well its got serious issues but it got through peer review at Scientific Reports so it must be all right...
Funders should at the very least force journals to publish the peer review documents.
For-profit insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are defrauding taxpayers out of $80 billion a year.
HHS Secretary Kennedy claims he wants to "clean up corruption" while he is doubling taxpayer dollars to these companies.
That sounds like the real "waste, fraud, and abuse."
Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate
Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
This seems like a really strong campaign launch video. No idea her other policy positions, but an impressive first impression.
The same guys trying to demonize government workers as useless bureaucrats who just lounge around all day on the taxpayer dime are complaining on television about how hard it is to work in the government
CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.
25 years ago, I came to Stanford on a J1 visa and worked so hard to be worthy of that privilege. Today, I lead Immunology at Mount Sinai and I am the one who feel privileged when brilliant international trainees chose to join us.
U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sank the Market www.propublica.org/article/us-o...
“Cutting basic science doesn’t save money.”
NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane!
If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.
My advisor @baym.lol pointedly speaking with WBUR.
“I think that reason is a pretense. I think that this is an attack on Harvard as a symbol of academia in the United States.”
GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit
But, on the other hand, it will kill many children.
DeLauro nails it. This is illegal impoundment. Every last dollar that was appropriated by Congress for the NIH that has been "saved" needs to spent on its intended purpose: scientific research for the benefit of the American people.
Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden
Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered
He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office
And he's going to keep using it after he leaves!
Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal
The Framers were so wise to write a constitutional clause saying "no foreign presents or emoluments whatsoever, except if you hold them through a foundation that you control & whose property is available for your personal use, in which case, NP & BFD: YOLO!"
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
True story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway
Federal police are becoming the standing army the Founders warned us about.
It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.
NEWS: I just led 112 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration on their funding freeze of the National Science Foundation.
Cutting off NSF funding threatens vital research, stalls innovation, and risks ceding global scientific leadership to China.
"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%."
Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.
if you’re describing MAGA culture as “masculine” you’re misunderstanding what it means to be a man
NSF paid marc andreessen's salary when he was writing NCSA Mosaic, then let him walk with the concept (and code, maybe? I forget) and start Netscape.
This is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it.
