Summary
Trump has reportedly slashed funding for the NIH’s Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer’s Research, leading to layoffs, including its incoming director.
The center, named after former GOP Senator Roy Blunt, was a Republican-backed initiative to advance Alzheimer’s and dementia research. Despite previously championing the program, Republicans have remained silent on the cuts.
Experts warn weakening the center will significantly set back Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research.
Critics argue the move contradicts past GOP support and lacks justification from either party or scientific leaders.
This is all a result of decades of the GOP and Mitch McConnell’s policies of “Whatever the Democrats are in favor of, we must be against, no matter what” and “Ban it and everything associated with it.” taken to their most extreme extremes.
They were against Covid vaccines and wanted them banned. When people asked “what about other vaccines”, it became “ban them too”. Science? Fuck it, science is bad, ban that too! And without science, who needs research? Might as well get rid of that. Just teach the kids the truth: God created everything, you don’t need science, and that cough will go away eventually…
<<points at brain>> Don’t need Alzheimer’s research if people aren’t gonna live long enough to suffer from it!
Me smart, see!
Really? I guess he feels his treatment is working well enough
Brilliant move. Now GOP donors will forget that they just wrote you a check, so they’ll write you another one
Makes sense because Trump will forget he received the checks.
I knew they secretly hated Ronnie Reagan lol
Elon : “Did you find a cure for Alzheimer’s in the last week? If not you are gone.”
They probably already forgot that they slashed the funding.
Maybe this means they’re close to a cure so they shut down the government funded agency doing the research so that the cure can be privatized.hope intensifies
Rachel Maddow is a genocide apologist…
Not helpful in any way.
I don’t think she’s any kind of moral authority
