XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:34:15 -0500, NoBody  wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 11:55:15 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   >Sherman) wrote:   
   >   
   >> |   
   >> | Happy New Year! Science blogging resumes on Monday. But I   
   >> | have to get this off my chest first:   
   >> |   
   >> | Let me start off this first post of 2026 by acknowledging   
   >> | that 2025 was, in many ways, a horrible year. I say that   
   >> | particularly by the subject matters of this site -   
   >> | biomedical research and science in general. The Trump   
   >> | administration moved quickly last year to attack federal   
   >> | research funding from every single angle they could think   
   >> | of, and went on to do major damage to every science-based   
   >> | agency. The NIH, CDC, FDA and others will need years to   
   >> | recover what's been done to them.   
   >> |   
   >> | Likewise, US public health will suffer. It already is. I   
   >> | note that we now have reached a level of measles cases not   
   >> | seen in this country for decades, and one can only expect   
   >> | the numbers for every other vaccine-preventable disease to   
   >> | rise as well. This is of course infuriating, because it is   
   >> | so senseless and was so avoidable, but here we are.   
   >> | Children will die who did not have to, and it was a choice.   
   >> | Just as gutting USAID was one of the early choices of the   
   >> | administration, an act of petty vandalism which has led   
   >> | (and will continue to lead) to even more deaths and   
   >> | suffering in the countries that used to get the aid. Never   
   >> | forget: whenever Elon Musk walks up to a podium to bullshit   
   >> | you about colonizing Mars or whatever, he is walking on the   
   >> | bodies of dead children. He yanked their food and medicine   
   >> | away while telling lies and cracking stupid jokes.   
   >> | ...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>    --bks   
   >   
   >Talk about sour grapes.  Uncontrolled illegal immigration (who don't   
   >get vaccines) brought this into our country.  Nada to do with any   
   >changes with the administration.   
   >   
   >He's just mad because his free money has been taken away.   
      
   And the fraud has fled.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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