Derek Thompson

Yeah, yeah, great question. You know, to me... The story that really shows not only the cruelty but also the ineptitude of these cuts is that in mid-April, it was reported by Science Journal and the New York Times that the NIH was going to cut by some extraordinary number, 70% to 80%, the longest and oldest longitudinal study of women's health. I believe it's called the Women's Health Initiative.

Yeah, yeah, great question. You know, to me... The story that really shows not only the cruelty but also the ineptitude of these cuts is that in mid-April, it was reported by Science Journal and the New York Times that the NIH was going to cut by some extraordinary number, 70% to 80%, the longest and oldest longitudinal study of women's health. I believe it's called the Women's Health Initiative.

This is the longest and largest study of women's health. We were just going to destroy it, right? Maybe because it had like a gender term in the title or something. So, science reaches out to the Department of Health and Human Services, and they say, we're going to look into it.

This is the longest and largest study of women's health. We were just going to destroy it, right? Maybe because it had like a gender term in the title or something. So, science reaches out to the Department of Health and Human Services, and they say, we're going to look into it.

This is the longest and largest study of women's health. We were just going to destroy it, right? Maybe because it had like a gender term in the title or something. So, science reaches out to the Department of Health and Human Services, and they say, we're going to look into it.

And 72 hours later, so embarrassed by the fact that for no seeming good reason, they've attacked women's health, HHS backtracks. Okay, so far, so good, you could say. The media served as a watchdog and saved this all-powerful program.

And 72 hours later, so embarrassed by the fact that for no seeming good reason, they've attacked women's health, HHS backtracks. Okay, so far, so good, you could say. The media served as a watchdog and saved this all-powerful program.

And 72 hours later, so embarrassed by the fact that for no seeming good reason, they've attacked women's health, HHS backtracks. Okay, so far, so good, you could say. The media served as a watchdog and saved this all-powerful program.

But then, 24 hours later, RFK comes out, and now, with those cuts reversed, he accuses the New York Times of lying about the original cut, now that they've reversed the cut. This is the level of dishonesty, right? and the level of lack of care that you have to assume is being applied to every single science cut across the system, right?

But then, 24 hours later, RFK comes out, and now, with those cuts reversed, he accuses the New York Times of lying about the original cut, now that they've reversed the cut. This is the level of dishonesty, right? and the level of lack of care that you have to assume is being applied to every single science cut across the system, right?

But then, 24 hours later, RFK comes out, and now, with those cuts reversed, he accuses the New York Times of lying about the original cut, now that they've reversed the cut. This is the level of dishonesty, right? and the level of lack of care that you have to assume is being applied to every single science cut across the system, right?

If this is how stupid and dishonest the cuts are to one program we identified, Imagine the stupidity and dishonesty multiplied across $15 billion of cuts to science, which are touching everything from cancer research, brain cancer research, Alzheimer's research, ALS research. I mean, it's just ludicrous that we're destroying these programs, and for what?

If this is how stupid and dishonest the cuts are to one program we identified, Imagine the stupidity and dishonesty multiplied across $15 billion of cuts to science, which are touching everything from cancer research, brain cancer research, Alzheimer's research, ALS research. I mean, it's just ludicrous that we're destroying these programs, and for what?

If this is how stupid and dishonest the cuts are to one program we identified, Imagine the stupidity and dishonesty multiplied across $15 billion of cuts to science, which are touching everything from cancer research, brain cancer research, Alzheimer's research, ALS research. I mean, it's just ludicrous that we're destroying these programs, and for what?

To own the libs, to express to Harvard our displeasure with their diversity programs? It's just terrible, I think, that we're essentially trying to wage a kind of ideological war against American academia and just burning science in the interim.

To own the libs, to express to Harvard our displeasure with their diversity programs? It's just terrible, I think, that we're essentially trying to wage a kind of ideological war against American academia and just burning science in the interim.

To own the libs, to express to Harvard our displeasure with their diversity programs? It's just terrible, I think, that we're essentially trying to wage a kind of ideological war against American academia and just burning science in the interim.

AI is such an interesting industry where many of the people who are most optimistic about the growth of the technology are also very pessimistic about what that optimism means. If you know what I mean, right? Like most of the time when someone's like a huge booster for say self-driving cars, It's because they think Waymo's cool.

AI is such an interesting industry where many of the people who are most optimistic about the growth of the technology are also very pessimistic about what that optimism means. If you know what I mean, right? Like most of the time when someone's like a huge booster for say self-driving cars, It's because they think Waymo's cool.

AI is such an interesting industry where many of the people who are most optimistic about the growth of the technology are also very pessimistic about what that optimism means. If you know what I mean, right? Like most of the time when someone's like a huge booster for say self-driving cars, It's because they think Waymo's cool.