This is most serious. Ignoring scientific research will definitely send them backwards.
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I can't help but think of the film The Death of Stalin (itself pulling from the reality of the time) where they tried to find a doctor who could save his life only to realize they purged all the good doctors.
Yeah classic brain drain scenario if they really do gut the NSF. Most academics draw public funding for projects even if they work at private institutions. Most of the good ones have opportunities to leave to do the same thing overseas less a couple of the US-specific humanities.
It's clear that there is some government censorship, and then there people in corporations self-censoring, and then there's also money being pulled from various public funds that went to science.
Those are somewhat distinct things, right? I was curious if you're trying to emphasize one or more of them as being particularly insidious.
The biggest issue is a government which can never admit there is a problem or crisis and insists everything is going well and to suggest so means death.