[FRIAM] MUsk + trUMP's = MUMPS

[Frank Wimberly]

I meant R-WY

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:03 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
>
> 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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