Oh Dear God. Realize am late to the party but: MAGA now may be going to halt mRNA research !?!

[SorellaLaBefana]

Am trying to avoid doom-scrolling, which means not looking at 'news'—so just learned of this latest actual insanity when going through email and found this appalling report linked in my Nature journal newsletter.

Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants

National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.

The mRNA technology is under study at the NIH for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including flu and AIDS, and also cancer. It was deployed in the development of covid-19 vaccines credited with saving 3 million lives in the U.S. alone...

A senior official at the National Cancer Institute confirmed that NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli sent an email across the NIH instructing that any grants, contracts, or collaborations involving mRNA vaccines be reported up the chain to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s office and the White House.

Memoli sent a similar message ahead of the agency canceling other research, such as studies of vaccine hesitancy....

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/

I've stuck to the 4 paragraph rule, as don't want to get post removed. HOWEVER, the website does state: "Use Our Content: It can be republished for free."

mRNA vaccines have, in the past half-decade, saved MILLIONS of lives. If not yours, then quite likely that of someone you love. Such research will continue to be done, just not in America. Science and technology has, besides benefiting the world, been a golden goose for our nation.

One would have thought that the destruction of the USSR's genetic and biological science by Stalin's embrace of Lysenkoism would give MAGA pause. Of course, one would have thought the example of Nazism this past century might also have been remembered.

To paraphrase the brilliant JBS Haldane "MAGA is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine."