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<p>Nick:</p>
<p>As you may know already, we are peas in a pod. I remind
everyone here gently from time to time in various ways to use
their <delete> keys with my missives of questionable merit.</p>
<p>As I age (grow more wise, more complex, more ??) I recognize that
my ideations (too much encouraged/supplemented these days by my
bar friend GPT) are perhaps "all over the place" relative to
other's sensibilities.</p>
<p>When I saw your (and George's) cartoon, I had a sense of "I guess
I had to be there", which is why I offered you my parsing.... even
though we all know that "a joke should never be explained"...</p>
<p>I also know (from bits of feedback from various quarters) that
fractions of my nonsense are parsed and appreciated but not
(publicly) acknowledged. I think you should continue (as you do)
to share what you might, as you must... even to deafening
silence?</p>
<p>:Steve<br>
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<div>Thanks for taking the meme idea seriously for a moment. I
have these moments of giddiness in which an idea just seems so
good that the world must have it. I actually imagined that
my inbox would be full of copies of my own cartoon sent to me
by people who did not know its source. Crazy as a loon, I
know it, but they are wonderful moments, and I could not write
[live?] without them. Narcissism Unbounded. Thanks for
playing along. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">It
seems to me they haven’t this through so good.
Thousands of NIH, NSF, and DOE funded scientists out
on the international market. Add to that reduced
regulation on advanced scientific equipment and
services. Augment with a general sense of doom and
self-interest and alienation from their country of
origin. Sounds like a recipe for foreign-based
companies to scoop them up, if not other
governments. I won’t suggest particulars, but I
think it is obvious how this could result in bad
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<p>My molecular biologist daughter is in the breach/sights
of this nonsense. She dedicated her career to 3rd-world
focused virology (flavi like West Nile, Dingue, Zika) and
is now faced with the triple-whammy of reduced
funding/interest in third-world problems, reduced *health*
funding, and the spirit that suggests as a woman in
science she might somehow have gotten her funding through
DEI biases. She is not a candidate for "defecting" to
China or Russia in this context but has been made crazy by
watching her mid-career colleagues defect from academic
research to profit-focused big pharma. She got pulled
off Flavi's to chase Coronas for a year or more because
her institution had more funding than they could spend
and her funding was a little more fungible... I think
she can (probably) hang in there through the current storm
(years) but not clear and it might actually be better for
her (career) to move to a European Institution (though I
don't know if that is even possible given what EricS
suggested about demand/supply.</p>
<p>After the fall of the Soviet Union, I participated in a
brief project reviewing US State Dept proposals by
(former) Soviet scientists seeking an alternative to
becomeing rogue nuclear scientists for who knows? Seems
like we are about to have our own problem of that nature?<br>
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