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Hopkins scholar: Purge in research funding stoked by Trump’s ‘fictional, conspiratorial worldview’

Summary by Dan Rodricks
I am augmenting today’s Substack commentary with a brief note here on my WordPress blog to alert as many readers as possible to the Republican rationale for the proposed purge of biomedical research funding.  The “big, beautiful” budget bill now before the Senate includes a devastating $18 billion cut to funding for the National Institutes of Health, the world’s leading funder of life-saving research into disease. Cited as a reason: the so-calle…
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