Some good perspective here. Everyone is in favor of funding high-quality, productive, unbiased scientific research. Everyone should be against funding pseudoscience, unproductive administrative costs, excessive journal fees, etc. The public conversation should revolve around how to improve the ROI of the $50-100 billion the US spends annually on biomedical research, improving science communication, increasing viewpoint diversity, decreasing political influence and bias, and ensure all Americans can participate. Communicating the value of biomedical research to the public will be key - the community has become too insular and has taken public funding for granted. NIH now has the right leader for this job.
50-100 billion on science is nuthin, how much does the guv "help" the oil and gas industry? automotive industry, DOD?
I worked in research for years, the problem is the venture capital and crooked pharma execs trying to slip junk science past the fda and doctors. They don't even hire the good scientists, it's a joke, they are the ones the professors don't even want to give references for, I watched it for many years.
I watched the NIH give 10 million dollars to Zion of smart cells who brags to everyone about selling it to merck for "half a billion dollars". I worked in that lab, the only thing they were interested in was providing for their lifestyles, marblehead home etc etc, they didn't want to spend money on the lab, it was a total joke, they couldn't even do basic chemistry, I should have never helped them. I remember their business guy (IT background, knew nothng of science" yelling at me saying they weren't interested in my stupid ideas when I saved their azz.
I thought I was working at Theranos getting yelled at by Sunny Balwani.
I tell you what a stupid idea is, turning a glucose assay into diabetes medicine, thinking your going to stick concanavalin in someone's arm on a regular basis, what nonsense.
Dr. Prasad, the media is not wrong...they are doing what they'll always do. Push a narrative that fits the Leftist cult. Until independent media completely takes over and MSM becomes UTTERLY INSIGNIFICANT it won't change. Actually, lower than whale $hit insignificant. Every sector and segment comes from the general population. Military included. You'll have some patriots, some honorable people, some squared away, some losers, and some cultists. The real problem is that academia pools from the latter and not the former. Hence, it's only a matter of time. Academia are the Hapsburg's but they don't realize it yet.
oh really is that so, what do you know about academia, where did you go to school? please tell us what kind of research you do?
moron trumper
The job of the "media" is to sell advertising for consumer products....that's it, they will use whatever subject matter achieves that goal, they could care less about politics.
You're right. I am a moron. I was not a Trumper until the world went mad. I did proudly vote for him this time around. And....I AM LOVING his cabinet, Marty, RFK, Dr. Prasad's, Tulsi, Hegseth's of the world. Before you go nuts over Hegseth/Trans issue, did you know that you cannot join the military if you have a peanut allergy? Do you know why that is? As a former Infantry officer, I can spell it out for you, if you'd like.
But, most of all, I am self aware....and have enough brain cells to know that 60 minutes lied. Cheated. That MSM and academia is completely skewed. If you think Dan Rather was just trying to sell ads when he went ahead with the fake Bush letter (against his producer's advice), you might be in a cult.
If you thought blocking Hunter Biden story was a correct journalistic move, you might be in a cult.
If you think MSM is protecting the user base, you might be in a cult.
If you think everyone that disagrees with you is a moron trumper, you might be in a cult.
If you think MSM is *not* a rabid fan of climate "crisis" you might be in a cult.
If you think MSM is *not* a rabid fan of anything transgender, you might be in a cult.
If you think Joe Biden was mentally fit until the last debate, you might be in a cult.
Just saw a study from Spain that found the great majority of RSV hospitalizations were old people either from nursing homes or with major cardiac or pulmonary disease. The conclusion was that that should be our focus on vaccine campaigns. We knew that with the Covid pandemic, but the government health agencies pushed mass vaccination and suppressed contrary opinions. In that regard why didn't the FDA opt for phase 3 studies of the RNA vaccines in nursing home volunteers instead of wasting 6 months testing them on healthy people before making them available. The track record of the government scientists ain't that good.
I don't disagree about the usefulness of the majority of research, and whether funding could be better used in other arenas, but that doesn't seem to be what is happening here. Witness the dismantling of the department of education, decreased numbers of people monitoring food safety, focus on getting rid of any watchdog agency designed to catch rich people cheating on taxes, food industry lapsing in safety protocols or fucking over their workers.
Most of FAT/ obese US population have issues because of size and inflammation. Another large group of the supposedly not fat have one of the eating disorders-- NOW we have five. Why doesn't anyone say the truth here. Covid closedown was because of these fat folks.
One thing I have learned in the past several years is that it is nearly impossible to divorce politics from many things now. I think there were some really good ideas about DEI, but when politics infiltrated it, it became something that it probably wasn’t meant to be. Can you imagine if wild animals decided to do DEI? Unfortunately, we live in a dog eat dog world just like they do. I know my analogies kind of dumb because it harkened back to Snow White, the 1937 version. In my mind. And as I laughed to myself for the silliness of the analogy, it hit me that DEI has become like the current version. Anyway, it seems like as soon as politics become involved 50% of our crowd goes away. How do we do all of this without political influence?
You know what, this mostly makes sense to me. The problem is that whoever is doing the cutting hasn’t shared criteria for what gets cut with the American public. Media hysteria or not, the public thinks “cutting cancer research” sounds pretty bad. I don’t think that will change until the cutters (DOGE? Dr. Jay? Someone else?) lay their cards on the table and explain the rationale for deciding which research we can do without. Until that happens, I think I might just continue #resisting.
Let me give you another example of places that aren't even operating at a basic level. This company Paratek that sells Nuzyra. I took a break from the lab to work on databases and they asked me to give reductive aminations on tets a try cause no one else could make it work.
The first thing I tried worked, you see it on the left side of Nuzyra.
I was attacked out in the street by one of the chemists who said it wouldn't work, he was violent towards others in the lab too.
I brought in and LCMS and trained people on it. Their so called "director" of chemistry asked his analytical guy to check it and see if it was accurate, LOL, I said to him, why don't you just run a known sample on it and see for yourself. They were just ridiculous.
Even worse, Nuzyra is suspect, there's a scathing review by Swamaninthin and these non inferiority studies.
The american chemical society calls them heros of chemistry, they couldn't even to the basics and there is no mention of me because as usual, they hated me.
I'm trying to tell people with these stories that so much of what they think is research is just nonsense.
so many people working in science don't even have basic skills.
I didn't go to college until I was 25, but with nothing more than a bachelors degree and that practical experience I made so called "senior scientists" look like fools in the lab many times, they just hated me for it, I was repeatedly assaulted and threatened by these clowns in dangerous chemistry labs. I grew up in canada playing hockey, do you know how humiliating it is to have to endure a physical assault or threat by some pencil necked geek in a lab, it's the worst, it happened many times to me.
Some good perspective here. Everyone is in favor of funding high-quality, productive, unbiased scientific research. Everyone should be against funding pseudoscience, unproductive administrative costs, excessive journal fees, etc. The public conversation should revolve around how to improve the ROI of the $50-100 billion the US spends annually on biomedical research, improving science communication, increasing viewpoint diversity, decreasing political influence and bias, and ensure all Americans can participate. Communicating the value of biomedical research to the public will be key - the community has become too insular and has taken public funding for granted. NIH now has the right leader for this job.
50-100 billion on science is nuthin, how much does the guv "help" the oil and gas industry? automotive industry, DOD?
I worked in research for years, the problem is the venture capital and crooked pharma execs trying to slip junk science past the fda and doctors. They don't even hire the good scientists, it's a joke, they are the ones the professors don't even want to give references for, I watched it for many years.
I watched the NIH give 10 million dollars to Zion of smart cells who brags to everyone about selling it to merck for "half a billion dollars". I worked in that lab, the only thing they were interested in was providing for their lifestyles, marblehead home etc etc, they didn't want to spend money on the lab, it was a total joke, they couldn't even do basic chemistry, I should have never helped them. I remember their business guy (IT background, knew nothng of science" yelling at me saying they weren't interested in my stupid ideas when I saved their azz.
I thought I was working at Theranos getting yelled at by Sunny Balwani.
I tell you what a stupid idea is, turning a glucose assay into diabetes medicine, thinking your going to stick concanavalin in someone's arm on a regular basis, what nonsense.
Dr. Prasad, the media is not wrong...they are doing what they'll always do. Push a narrative that fits the Leftist cult. Until independent media completely takes over and MSM becomes UTTERLY INSIGNIFICANT it won't change. Actually, lower than whale $hit insignificant. Every sector and segment comes from the general population. Military included. You'll have some patriots, some honorable people, some squared away, some losers, and some cultists. The real problem is that academia pools from the latter and not the former. Hence, it's only a matter of time. Academia are the Hapsburg's but they don't realize it yet.
oh really is that so, what do you know about academia, where did you go to school? please tell us what kind of research you do?
moron trumper
The job of the "media" is to sell advertising for consumer products....that's it, they will use whatever subject matter achieves that goal, they could care less about politics.
You're right. I am a moron. I was not a Trumper until the world went mad. I did proudly vote for him this time around. And....I AM LOVING his cabinet, Marty, RFK, Dr. Prasad's, Tulsi, Hegseth's of the world. Before you go nuts over Hegseth/Trans issue, did you know that you cannot join the military if you have a peanut allergy? Do you know why that is? As a former Infantry officer, I can spell it out for you, if you'd like.
But, most of all, I am self aware....and have enough brain cells to know that 60 minutes lied. Cheated. That MSM and academia is completely skewed. If you think Dan Rather was just trying to sell ads when he went ahead with the fake Bush letter (against his producer's advice), you might be in a cult.
If you thought blocking Hunter Biden story was a correct journalistic move, you might be in a cult.
If you think MSM is protecting the user base, you might be in a cult.
If you think everyone that disagrees with you is a moron trumper, you might be in a cult.
If you think MSM is *not* a rabid fan of climate "crisis" you might be in a cult.
If you think MSM is *not* a rabid fan of anything transgender, you might be in a cult.
If you think Joe Biden was mentally fit until the last debate, you might be in a cult.
How's that grocery bill?
I'm in the middle of building a house, trump just screwed me.
Trump made billionaires billions richer and cut your guv services.
Good job
Good job, Indeed. Glad we agree. BTW, Don't skimp on flashing, it's always water penetration that destroy framing. You're welcome.
Just saw a study from Spain that found the great majority of RSV hospitalizations were old people either from nursing homes or with major cardiac or pulmonary disease. The conclusion was that that should be our focus on vaccine campaigns. We knew that with the Covid pandemic, but the government health agencies pushed mass vaccination and suppressed contrary opinions. In that regard why didn't the FDA opt for phase 3 studies of the RNA vaccines in nursing home volunteers instead of wasting 6 months testing them on healthy people before making them available. The track record of the government scientists ain't that good.
pharma could care less about antibiotic research but there's a bigly need for some new ones, that says a lot.
One of your many best.
Love the subtitle.
I don't disagree about the usefulness of the majority of research, and whether funding could be better used in other arenas, but that doesn't seem to be what is happening here. Witness the dismantling of the department of education, decreased numbers of people monitoring food safety, focus on getting rid of any watchdog agency designed to catch rich people cheating on taxes, food industry lapsing in safety protocols or fucking over their workers.
Most of FAT/ obese US population have issues because of size and inflammation. Another large group of the supposedly not fat have one of the eating disorders-- NOW we have five. Why doesn't anyone say the truth here. Covid closedown was because of these fat folks.
One thing I have learned in the past several years is that it is nearly impossible to divorce politics from many things now. I think there were some really good ideas about DEI, but when politics infiltrated it, it became something that it probably wasn’t meant to be. Can you imagine if wild animals decided to do DEI? Unfortunately, we live in a dog eat dog world just like they do. I know my analogies kind of dumb because it harkened back to Snow White, the 1937 version. In my mind. And as I laughed to myself for the silliness of the analogy, it hit me that DEI has become like the current version. Anyway, it seems like as soon as politics become involved 50% of our crowd goes away. How do we do all of this without political influence?
You know what, this mostly makes sense to me. The problem is that whoever is doing the cutting hasn’t shared criteria for what gets cut with the American public. Media hysteria or not, the public thinks “cutting cancer research” sounds pretty bad. I don’t think that will change until the cutters (DOGE? Dr. Jay? Someone else?) lay their cards on the table and explain the rationale for deciding which research we can do without. Until that happens, I think I might just continue #resisting.
unfortunately most cancer research and medicine for that matter is just a tool for taking away a persons life savings at the end of their life.
Let me give you another example of places that aren't even operating at a basic level. This company Paratek that sells Nuzyra. I took a break from the lab to work on databases and they asked me to give reductive aminations on tets a try cause no one else could make it work.
The first thing I tried worked, you see it on the left side of Nuzyra.
I was attacked out in the street by one of the chemists who said it wouldn't work, he was violent towards others in the lab too.
I brought in and LCMS and trained people on it. Their so called "director" of chemistry asked his analytical guy to check it and see if it was accurate, LOL, I said to him, why don't you just run a known sample on it and see for yourself. They were just ridiculous.
Even worse, Nuzyra is suspect, there's a scathing review by Swamaninthin and these non inferiority studies.
The american chemical society calls them heros of chemistry, they couldn't even to the basics and there is no mention of me because as usual, they hated me.
I'm trying to tell people with these stories that so much of what they think is research is just nonsense.
so many people working in science don't even have basic skills.
I didn't go to college until I was 25, but with nothing more than a bachelors degree and that practical experience I made so called "senior scientists" look like fools in the lab many times, they just hated me for it, I was repeatedly assaulted and threatened by these clowns in dangerous chemistry labs. I grew up in canada playing hockey, do you know how humiliating it is to have to endure a physical assault or threat by some pencil necked geek in a lab, it's the worst, it happened many times to me.