15 researchers from biomedical sciences and STEM to education and political science shared their experience of losing research grants, and the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding that would be a loss to science, public health, and education. Internal Advanced ED today.
The Trump administration told researchers Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Nicholas Metheny and Sarah Peitzmeier that training related to their National Institutes of Health grants focused on preventing intimate partner violence against pregnant and perinatal women “relatively opposed to scientific inquiries, not related to scientific inquiries, does not help our knowledge of life, and ultimately makes our lives longer and prolongs healthy illnesses, and prolongs healthy life and prolongs healthy illnesses.
“We can’t disagree again,” wrote Field-Miller, Metheny and Peitzmeier. “Anyone who cares for children or who gave birth to them knows that preventing maternal and infant death and abuse should be a nonpartisan issue. The current government intends to include this issue even in “we” with them. There is no such thing in public health.”
Meanwhile, Judith Scott-Clayton wrote that the cancellation of the Department of Education’s decision granted the first random assessment of the federal work program, a six-year project that would leave policy makers “blind”.
“The FWS program has paid more than $95 billion in awards since 1964,” Scott-Clayton wrote. “In comparison, our grants are less than two thousandths in quantity, and the remaining amount of the work done and sharing our findings with the public is only a small part of that.”
Read all the scholars’ stories here.
