Summary
Trump has reportedly slashed funding for the NIH’s Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer’s Research, leading to layoffs, including its incoming director.
The center, named after former GOP Senator Roy Blunt, was a Republican-backed initiative to advance Alzheimer’s and dementia research. Despite previously championing the program, Republicans have remained silent on the cuts.
Experts warn weakening the center will significantly set back Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research.
Critics argue the move contradicts past GOP support and lacks justification from either party or scientific leaders.
Brilliant move. Now GOP donors will forget that they just wrote you a check, so they’ll write you another one
Makes sense because Trump will forget he received the checks.
You would think trump and the many old politicians would be more interested in this and really any health research.
They are silent, because they have alzheimers, and aren’t sure what it going on.
This is all a result of decades of the GOP and Mitch McConnell’s policies of “Whatever the Democrats are in favor of, we must be against, no matter what” and “Ban it and everything associated with it.” taken to their most extreme extremes.
They were against Covid vaccines and wanted them banned. When people asked “what about other vaccines”, it became “ban them too”. Science? Fuck it, science is bad, ban that too! And without science, who needs research? Might as well get rid of that. Just teach the kids the truth: God created everything, you don’t need science, and that cough will go away eventually…
<<points at brain>> Don’t need Alzheimer’s research if people aren’t gonna live long enough to suffer from it!
Me smart, see!
I knew they secretly hated Ronnie Reagan lol
Really? I guess he feels his treatment is working well enough
They may have forgotten their talking points.
We were funding something? Don’t remember.
Rachel Maddow is a genocide apologist…
Yes, but that’s 100% irrelevant.
What’s next, you going to attack normalizing relations with Cuba by pointing out the many war crimes Obama committed in the middle east?
Not helpful in any way.
I don’t think she’s any kind of moral authority
Being wrong about one thing does not preclude someone from being correct about a completely unrelated thing. Grow up.
Telling someone who holds our leaders accountable for genocide support to grow up is fucking rich.
What does Rachel Maddow lead…?
Thought leadership. Influence.
Calling a comment about rachel fucking maddow on lemmy ‘holding our leaders accountable’ is straight up pathetic shit. Go actually do something or find a new tune to sing.
She’s a leader regardless of if I like her or not. She has a ton of influence and she uses that to cheerlead the blue MAGA democrats who can’t do nothing wrong not even a genocide is worthy of criticism to the vote blue no matter who types who can’t figure out how or why they lost an election.
Maybe if your kind - blue MAGA - learned to grow the fuck up and hold their leaders accountable instead of being pussies the democrats wouldn’t have lost the election. You know, demand they hold a primary and stop funding israel. But that’s too hard, let’s lose to fascists instead! And then ratchet further to the right!
Aha. You don’t know the difference between influential and leadership.
