toIke many scientists, I came to the United States as an adult young woman, led by idealism and ambition. I arrived with all my property received in two bags, and only enough money to cover the first month rent on a small apartment. But I had something greater value: an offer to work and train in one of the best biomedical research laboratories in America, an opportunity to participate in the revolution that is modern biological sciences.
In the following years, it became an American scientist and raising an American family. Now, I lead a laboratory in a great US university. I am a member of the National Academy of American Science. From the point of view of the world, I lived the American dream.
My story is not unusual. Many of the world’s best scientists are attracted to the United States, and joins many Americans who choose to build a profession in science. This attraction for American science is that more than any other country, America appreciates an unrestricted scientific investigation. In the United States, scientists have larger resources to follow their work, and scientists are an integral part of a culture that has innovation and dynamism in its essence.
Simply put, the United States is the best place in the world to be smart and aspirations for discoveries, enhance knowledge and improve people’s lives. Thus, the United States leads the world in science, by any measureable standard. Twenty of the best 30 universities in the world are American, and most of the Nobel Awards in Science won by the Americans, half of the drugs in the world are invented in the United States. When “American exceptional” is talked, scientists, and perhaps more than any other profession know exactly what is meant.
The vast majority of basic scientific research in the United States is funded by American taxpayers, through bodies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Corporation, which provide scholarships for universities and research institutes. These grants support scientific infrastructure, pay the salaries of scientists and finance specific research projects. While charities and individual donors also make contributions, they dwarf us with federal support.
The general funding of science is essential because most of the science efforts cannot be marketed directly, and the basic sciences are rarely done by the profitable sector. Moreover, science, by virtue of the definition, requires a and an experimental experience calling for the brink of knowledge-its results cannot be predicted. Therefore, science, to some extent, is not effective by nature.
However, science is the only way to generate foundational knowledge that allows technology, medicine and understanding how the world works, which can be applied in favor of humanity. The knowledge that the science motivation is revealed, supports American innovation and exception.
The exceptional success that the American flag made it sad now to witness its destruction. General investment that made American science exceptional make it depend on political support.
For the largest part, both sides of the political gap recognized the clear value of the American science of society and have widely supported public investment in information technology. But this no longer seems to be the case.
As I write, the American flag is suffocated. The promised money for continuous research projects is blocked by the new administration. Executive orders have been issued for the questionable legal basis that will cut resources to science. Some colleagues have already been forced to finish the employment and training of the next generation of scientists, as the previously promised money has been rejected. Many colleagues will need to take similar steps in the coming weeks and months, where their research grants are withheld.
Many graduate schools in science do not accept new students, many of them cancel previous offers, while others greatly reduce their intake. Do not make mistakes, the scientific workforce is destroyed. The blocking of scientific resources has been published as a form of punishment on some prominent universities on a large scale, but it already occurs in almost every vital American medical research institution. The United States’s ability to do science is eliminated and its scientific talent is eliminated.
In addition to blocking resources, American science is corrized more through the installation of leadership that is unable or even understanding science, and it is clear that it is unable to lead it effectively.
In the past, the American flag led the scientists and officials who realized its founding role in a society that has its life. Under the new administration, the roles of the leadership leadership were set for those who are not noticeable, and the only real discrimination is not toxic. We would never hear about these individuals if it was not because of their funny statements, weak knowledge, or the explicit Antichrist.
These new leaders target specific areas of great scientific importance to the judiciary. They ordered the examination of requests to grant national health institutes to certain scientific conditions; For example, projects are eliminated on vaccines that use an exceptionally promising technology, which is not enjoyed on the basis of driving. The entire programs that aim to prepare the United States and the world are better ended for future epidemics.
For example, in my laboratory, the NIH project that was reviewed by the theorizers and approved to devise ways to create better premature vaccines, without scientific justification. Meanwhile, the new leadership in its inclination studies will be applied, on the surface to address vaccine safety issues. These issues have already been settled, but they will be re -examined by individuals who have a busy record of bias, appointed by leaders with a busy record of bias.
Finally, within the past few days, scientists in the National Health Institutes, including the firing of distinguished individuals in the roles of management. This is clear and it is clear that it is not how science should be done, and this is clear and it is clear that it is not how science should lead. The flag in the United States enters a stage similar to the Lysinko era in the Soviet Union.
While the destruction of science will not immediately affect many Americans who are not scientists, the effect of its disappearance on all our children and grandchildren will be great. Economic development depends on scientific innovation, and if the United States does not lead the road in science, other countries will take over the role of leadership. In medicine, he considered the influence of the science that has occurred decades ago on American life today; Almost all American children remain to adulthood is a somewhat modern phenomenon that is largely due to the basic scientific discoveries of the near past.
If we continue to the destroyed course that this administration drew, the drugs that would have saved lives in future generations will not be invented. The technologies that would have been in future employment and prosperity will not be placed in the United States. Solutions that allow energy generation while causing lower damage to the environment, will never be developed. Obviously, if we refuse to care for science, the lives of the Americans in the future will be shorter, worse and poorer. Flag may not be the only thing that makes the United States great, but it is definitely the cornerstone of the American exceptional, and is destroyed by this government.