Why are institutions bowing to Trump's illegal anti-trans orders?
Why are institutions bowing to Trump's illegal anti-trans orders?
From the NCAA to hospitals and universities, “preemptive obedience” is the new norm.
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Some are cowards even if they do care.
Some have always secretly agreed but were afraid to act on it.
Some are just apathetic as long as it doesn't directly affect them.
But the bigesst reason? Money.
Well, they just cut every research university in the country’s money by limiting facilities and administration funding on science grants to 15% (with a few exceptions possible, if approved, presumably by Elon Musk).
Basically, a $1,000,000 grant to a research scientist comes with a corresponding payment to the university to build whatever is needed and run the lab. It’s usually close to 50% because research labs aren’t cheap. And with few exceptions, private companies don’t really fund basic research labs like they used to. (There is, obviously, a lot of private sector R&D but nothing like back in the day when Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, etc. were doing revolutionary work.)
So basically the Brain Drain towards the US will slow down, maybe China will take over
Slow down? Shit is going to start flowing the opposite way. The brain drain from the US has begun.
They want a stupid populace, they're going to get one. And it will probably end up killing us all.
The people who are smart enough to be able to get jobs else where are also smart enough to see the writing on the wall of an anti-intellectual admin. The us is only going to get dumber, which is the goal for the gop.