Sequester Consequences, May 2013
Just dismal.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/05/nih-details-impact-of-2013-seque.html
National Institutes of Health, budget cut 5.1%, 703 projects dropped.
National Cancer Institute, budget cut 5.8%, 79 projects dropped.
National Institutes of General Medicine, budget cut 5%, 210 projects dropped.
The researcher’s comments are painful to read: taking unexciting alternative work but at least it pays the bills; I’m leaving research when I finish my PhD, nobody cares; I can beg/borrow/steal [necessary supplies] from the big medical school next door but other labs are just screwed.
Or you can watch recent video interview with NIH director, Francis Collins.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc-hardball_with_chris_matthews/vp/51921967#51921967
Cuts are bad policy with immediate permanent consequences. The work these researchers don’t do is more than “delayed” it will never be done, it is lost forever. Every year wasted is a waste of talent and potential - one year’s worth, never to be recouped.
Cuts combine short term stupidity with long term detriment. Years of training and effort will be lost forever when qualified young scientists leave research. The pipeline of rising new research talent is being decimated. Why should bright young people knock themselves out in school and as research assistants honing their unique skill, at very low pay and at zero social status, only to be cut later?
There is no way to magically restore lost years of preparatory experience when a young person leaves research, it takes years all over again, to restore that level of qualification in someone younger.
Cuts are not necessary as economics, anywhere they are made, in any program. Cuts to NIH are especially egregious. The resources are available: the labs already exist. The people already exist. They are qualified now.
Deficit hysteria is a lie endlessly repeated to “justify” this insanity.
The government is not a family: families do not perform fundamental scientific research that benefits the nation. These cuts will not create jobs as the politicians claim: obviously, they destroy jobs. These cuts are not examples of “responsible” government: the government does not spend borrowed money and it does not have to collect tax to spend on the public purpose. These cuts are not examples of government “living within its means”: such a government would realize the maximum potential of its means, the people, their energy, the resources it has already.
The sequester is an intentional government fail. Madness lies waste and shame.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/05/nih-details-impact-of-2013-seque.html
National Institutes of Health, budget cut 5.1%, 703 projects dropped.
National Cancer Institute, budget cut 5.8%, 79 projects dropped.
National Institutes of General Medicine, budget cut 5%, 210 projects dropped.
The researcher’s comments are painful to read: taking unexciting alternative work but at least it pays the bills; I’m leaving research when I finish my PhD, nobody cares; I can beg/borrow/steal [necessary supplies] from the big medical school next door but other labs are just screwed.
Or you can watch recent video interview with NIH director, Francis Collins.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc-hardball_with_chris_matthews/vp/51921967#51921967
Cuts are bad policy with immediate permanent consequences. The work these researchers don’t do is more than “delayed” it will never be done, it is lost forever. Every year wasted is a waste of talent and potential - one year’s worth, never to be recouped.
Cuts combine short term stupidity with long term detriment. Years of training and effort will be lost forever when qualified young scientists leave research. The pipeline of rising new research talent is being decimated. Why should bright young people knock themselves out in school and as research assistants honing their unique skill, at very low pay and at zero social status, only to be cut later?
There is no way to magically restore lost years of preparatory experience when a young person leaves research, it takes years all over again, to restore that level of qualification in someone younger.
Cuts are not necessary as economics, anywhere they are made, in any program. Cuts to NIH are especially egregious. The resources are available: the labs already exist. The people already exist. They are qualified now.
Deficit hysteria is a lie endlessly repeated to “justify” this insanity.
The government is not a family: families do not perform fundamental scientific research that benefits the nation. These cuts will not create jobs as the politicians claim: obviously, they destroy jobs. These cuts are not examples of “responsible” government: the government does not spend borrowed money and it does not have to collect tax to spend on the public purpose. These cuts are not examples of government “living within its means”: such a government would realize the maximum potential of its means, the people, their energy, the resources it has already.
The sequester is an intentional government fail. Madness lies waste and shame.