[FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS

[Frank Wimberly]

Somebody asked Allen Simpson D-WY what is politics.  He said, "Poli means
many and Tics are blood-sucking insects."

He just died so they showed that clip during his obituary.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 4:53 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> These contributions, interesting In their own right , constitute the most
> egregiously bent thread that has ever been foisted on friam.  Am I being
> rebuked for offering lame Political commentary, or are your guys just
> clueless?
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 outcomes.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
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