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Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover. Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer. Pers views. #science #medicine
Here's the 2018 @undark.org piece on WCW. Worth a read.
A conservative political consultant wants to end government funding for research involving animal subjects. Scientists call that a dangerous game.
Here is WCW boasting in 2020 about working with Matt Gaetz, Trump's first nominee to be Secretary of Defense.
Here is Heritage PR pushing WCW back in 2018 on Twitter.
Meanwhile, the founder of White Coat Waste is "a conservative political consultant...[who] worked on campaigns to defund Planned Parenthood, the women’s reproductive rights nonprofit, and to end Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act."
Be on the lookout for political wedge issues coming from the Trump administration. It's what they do.
David Gortler is a staffer at the Heritage Foundation. According to this, he is "a board member and technical advisor to the White Coat Waste Project."
The Heritage Foundation is Project 2025.
Lyndsey Fifield was at some point on WCW's board. She's a longtime comms staffer at Heritage, the central Project 2025 organization.
"White Coat Waste" can't truly be understood without discussing that it has tight links to Republicans—including the Project 2025 Heritage Foundation.
This article from @phiejacobs.bsky.social at Science is difficult because it does not describe these links. 1/
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Related to our previous post- if you had a grant terminated, Pro Publica wants to hear from you. Your work was funded because it was good, important science meant to help Americans. Reach out, and make your voice heard.
www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
Our advice? If you are a grantee and have questions, ask to have a phone call with your PO. They are the person best suited to help you navigate this (though we're weathering choppy waters, too.) Our job is to help support science and scientists- not politically-motivated ideology.
"The legal risk would be “low to medium,” according to the June 25 guidance, which was first reported by Stat and later obtained by The Chronicle."