These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
This, along with rules barring collaboration with anybody who has any affiliation with any foreign university, will effectively end the US as a place where scientific research happens. Recovery from that does not happen; the Germans similarly destroyed their research establishment in the early 20th century, and it basically never recovered to anything like what it was.
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It’ll take a year to get through the courts and in the meantime a huge chunk of junior researchers will find another career. This is going to permanently damage the US even if reversed
They’re also fine. The US has been abusing the world for decades. It will become a better place after some collapse.
Funding and performing a large chunk of the world’s scientific research is not abusive, and with no other country stepping up at the needed scale, it’s going to leave everyone worse off.
Not when the tech is abused. Also China is leaps past the US currently.