Derek Lowe

I've got to go find a job somewhere. I hope I can find a job in industry, but if not, I'm going to find a job at the used car lot. I've got to survive. So you lose a lot of people like that. And getting the band back together after an event like that is not going to be so easy. If this goes on, the damage is going to be tremendous.

I've got to go find a job somewhere. I hope I can find a job in industry, but if not, I'm going to find a job at the used car lot. I've got to survive. So you lose a lot of people like that. And getting the band back together after an event like that is not going to be so easy. If this goes on, the damage is going to be tremendous.

I mean, if you start talking about getting rid of a quarter to half of the National Science Foundation, if you start trying to shake out as many employees as you can out of the NIH, you're going to take the greatest success in publicly funded scientific research in history, and you're just going to completely brutalize it.

I mean, if you start talking about getting rid of a quarter to half of the National Science Foundation, if you start trying to shake out as many employees as you can out of the NIH, you're going to take the greatest success in publicly funded scientific research in history, and you're just going to completely brutalize it.

I mean, if you start talking about getting rid of a quarter to half of the National Science Foundation, if you start trying to shake out as many employees as you can out of the NIH, you're going to take the greatest success in publicly funded scientific research in history, and you're just going to completely brutalize it.

I mean, the NIH does a lot of fundamental research in a number of disease areas. You just have to look at the institutes that are under the NIH umbrella. You have the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Cancer Institute, on and on and on.

I mean, the NIH does a lot of fundamental research in a number of disease areas. You just have to look at the institutes that are under the NIH umbrella. You have the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Cancer Institute, on and on and on.

I mean, the NIH does a lot of fundamental research in a number of disease areas. You just have to look at the institutes that are under the NIH umbrella. You have the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Cancer Institute, on and on and on.

They do a lot of very important work themselves, and they fund a lot of very important work on these things. A lot of fundamental research where we're still trying to figure out the causes. And they also do things all the way up to the clinic. They fund some clinical trials of their own to try to answer questions that aren't getting answered. And the thing is, these things take a long time.

They do a lot of very important work themselves, and they fund a lot of very important work on these things. A lot of fundamental research where we're still trying to figure out the causes. And they also do things all the way up to the clinic. They fund some clinical trials of their own to try to answer questions that aren't getting answered. And the thing is, these things take a long time.

They do a lot of very important work themselves, and they fund a lot of very important work on these things. A lot of fundamental research where we're still trying to figure out the causes. And they also do things all the way up to the clinic. They fund some clinical trials of their own to try to answer questions that aren't getting answered. And the thing is, these things take a long time.

Scientific research is really slow. But if you stop it now, you might not even notice for a few weeks or a few months or a year or two, but then you'll start to notice because the progress will slow down. the ideas that get generated for new ways to study or treat these diseases start disappearing quietly, unobtrusively, everything gets smaller and poorer.

Scientific research is really slow. But if you stop it now, you might not even notice for a few weeks or a few months or a year or two, but then you'll start to notice because the progress will slow down. the ideas that get generated for new ways to study or treat these diseases start disappearing quietly, unobtrusively, everything gets smaller and poorer.

Scientific research is really slow. But if you stop it now, you might not even notice for a few weeks or a few months or a year or two, but then you'll start to notice because the progress will slow down. the ideas that get generated for new ways to study or treat these diseases start disappearing quietly, unobtrusively, everything gets smaller and poorer.

Right. For example, some of the fundamental work on the idea of using mRNA vaccines and the hurdles that had to be overcome because it wasn't something that worked the first time. In fact, it didn't work for years and years and years. That came out, a good chunk of it, out of NIH-funded research.

Right. For example, some of the fundamental work on the idea of using mRNA vaccines and the hurdles that had to be overcome because it wasn't something that worked the first time. In fact, it didn't work for years and years and years. That came out, a good chunk of it, out of NIH-funded research.

Right. For example, some of the fundamental work on the idea of using mRNA vaccines and the hurdles that had to be overcome because it wasn't something that worked the first time. In fact, it didn't work for years and years and years. That came out, a good chunk of it, out of NIH-funded research.

We have things going on for not only infectious diseases, up to and including HIV, but also things for various kinds of cancer that could be treated this way. And the NIH had a big hand in that.

We have things going on for not only infectious diseases, up to and including HIV, but also things for various kinds of cancer that could be treated this way. And the NIH had a big hand in that.

We have things going on for not only infectious diseases, up to and including HIV, but also things for various kinds of cancer that could be treated this way. And the NIH had a big hand in that.