These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

This, along with rules barring collaboration with anybody who has any affiliation with any foreign university, will effectively end the US as a place where scientific research happens. Recovery from that does not happen; the Germans similarly destroyed their research establishment in the early 20th century, and it basically never recovered to anything like what it was.

Archived copies of the article:

  • stoly@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    They’re also fine. The US has been abusing the world for decades. It will become a better place after some collapse.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      Funding and performing a large chunk of the world’s scientific research is not abusive, and with no other country stepping up at the needed scale, it’s going to leave everyone worse off.