From @joshuasweitz.bsky.social "Nihilism and its Alternatives As a The Washington Post subscriber and admirer of many in their news team, it was shocking (but not surprising) to read Scott Atlas’ July 2nd OpEd: “Abolish the NIH“. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Decoy effects and the White House vision of transferring federal funding of science to corporate interestsWhy a recent call to abolish the NIH is a decoy to accelerate the OSTP-endorsed transfer of federal science funding to corporate interestssubstack.com