Trump's medical research freeze leaves NIH in limbo
By Lisa Jarvis / Bloomberg Opinion
The Trump administration has pressed the pause button on the U.S.’s vital biomedical research engine, the National Institutes for Health. Grant reviews, travel and hiring appear to be on indefinite hold.
Without any concrete guidance about the reasoning or length of the freeze, America’s best scientific minds are left to figure out the extent and impact of the disruption.
The upheaval isn’t limited to NIH. Within days of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, issued a communication blackout. That order has affected everything from communicating with state and local health officials about the bird flu outbreak to issuing regulations and guidance to social media posts and updating agency websites.
But the situation with the NIH seems the direst. It unfolded in real time Wednesday as academic researchers took to social media to share experiences of abruptly canceled NIH meetings; some reportedly halted mid-session-and travel disruptions. Job offers were rescinded, and review panels on cancer research were canceled.
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Dumb shit is in over his head.