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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by jonstewart on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:42PM (#42942987)
Of course it’s not about saving money. It’s about extinguishing facts. This is Orwell 101.
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Re:What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF by Empact on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:38PM (#42953076)
So you still believe government-funded research is equivalent to facts in 2025? What about the replication crisis? The political control of research finance e.g. in Alzheimer’s research?

It takes either an extreme amount of naïveté or motivated reasoning to maintain that perspective, IMO.

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