Derek Thompson

It is one of the most important successful institutions in America.

You cannot criticize it.

You cannot touch it.

It exists in a kind of spectral plane that we can simply not broke any criticism of.

That's sort of one pro-establishment approach.

The current anti-establishment MAGA approach essentially says...

For a variety of reasons that are too complicated for me to go into right now, we hate universities, we don't trust scientists, and we really don't like mRNA.

So we're going to attack the universities.

We're going to destroy a lot of their scientific programs.

We're going to cut NIH grants by billions of dollars and also basically ban mRNA research because RFK and Donald Trump don't like it very much.

That's catastrophic.

But then you come to category number three.

And the abundance liberal approach is not to say, how dare you attack the NIH, which is a perfect program.

It's celestial and you have no business criticizing it.

It's to say, you know what?

Current policy is horrific.

But what's also quite embarrassing is the fact that according to their own testimony, American scientists that are funded by NIH spend up to 40% of their time filling out paperwork.

These are the smartest people in the world that we've entrusted with coming up with the most important breakthroughs about the cosmos and the human body curing diseases.

And what do we do for almost half of their time?

Force them to check boxes.