Musk’s cuts 'hobbling' major Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research facility

[Farooqji]

msn.com/en-in/health/other/...

[michelagvolpe]

It is easier to govern a people with dementia than an intelligent one.

[Zscaleplanet]

And another article claiming something different about the cuts. MSN news always needs to be cross-checked for accuracy.

foxbaltimore.com/news/natio...

[Steegen in reply to Zscaleplanet]

I don't know if that article disagrees entirely. From the article you linked:

“The notion of indirect costs is not overhead, it's indirect costs,” Levi said. “And there is a difference.” Schools use the funding in the category of indirect costs to build laboratories and support the technicians who make the research possible, Levi said.

“This is cutting your nose off to spite your face,” he said. “It's going to undermine the ability of the universities to do the research that they have been contracted to do.”

Personally, it seems straight forward to me that giving these research facilities less money, no matter how you slice it or what category that money was falling under, means the research is going to suffer.

[Boscoejean in reply to Steegen]

I would hit like on this because of the truth but that does not mean that I like what is going on.

[Zscaleplanet in reply to Steegen]

The article I submitted gives two different perspectives.

Reading above and below the snippet you grabbed, John Early of the CATO Institute counters with the observation that the cuts are needed.

"Early, on the contrary, said the NIH’s announced intention to lower its funding for indirect costs won’t hurt the core research.

“There's plenty of waste in there, and this isn't going to be negative at all,” Early said.

He said the change “just reduces the number of administrative people issuing reports at the universities. It doesn't actually affect the actual research that goes on.”"

At the end of the day, it comes down to this: If the United States doesn't get it's fiscal house in order and reign in this corrupt and out of control spending, there will be no United States left. The day of reckoning is here and nobody said it was going to be pleasant. The corruption and waste has gone long enough and Americans as a whole are sick of it.

[Steegen in reply to Zscaleplanet]

I won't go further into the weeds of politics, whether if it's good for America in general, etc, since that isn't going to be productive.

I don't see how it could be good for Parkinson's research, but hope I am wrong.

[MBAnderson]

🤐☠️

[Mechjack]

That was an incredible piece of activist journalism. Does anyone know why the current director of CARD, Andrew Singleton, is leaving?

[Astrojupiter]

sadly the quality of research on these areas where money is being thrown to universities is pathetic. The pressure to publish is great. The people evaluating the professors both at the college and at the government level have a hard time, knowing if their research is any good or not. The whole system has been question for quite a long time. It’s more about career advancement than anything else.

[claudejgreengrass in reply to Astrojupiter]

True, but at least Parkinson's research has a star spokesperson unlike ET which only got a separate medical classification in 2013 and has 6x prevalence