Despicable theyre cutting this money. Absolutely heart wrenching
1 month ago | 2,700
The solution to the Fermi paradox is when a society develops technology too complex for its dumbest members to understand, they tear it down in hysteria
1 month ago | 2,600
it's incredibly frustrating. unbelievable. laughable, really. as a biomedical researcher, why are people who don't comprehend the level of science being conducted, evaluating its integrity?
1 month ago | 551
@seventeenraccoonsinatrenchcoat
Why use a mRNA to treat all those conditions when you could just eat a roadkill bear about it
1 month ago | 543
Does anyone else just feel overwhelmingly depressed that there’s an entire segment of the US that prevents us from moving forward simply because they are afraid of what they don’t understand? Trust in science just feels totally lost at this point, man.
1 month ago | 2,200
Back in 2018, I stood in front of a class of Biology students and told them that science can be a thankless career path, and that politics can get in the way of/undermine your work. For a while afterwards I worried that I might have been too discouraging with my choice of words, but in retrospect those statements look more and more prescient with each passing year.
1 month ago | 122
Glad to know that my generation is gonna basically be spending the rest of our lives fixing this mess
1 month ago | 1,300
In the next decade we’re going to start seeing these anti-science people complain about “why couldn’t these breakthroughs be made in the US?”
1 month ago | 460
I’m currently a high schooler in my school’s biotech program, and I love doing labs and learning about how protein synthesis/expression and discovering how it can open up treatments for conditions like the ones you listed. One of my passions in science lies in research with biotechnology. In college I plan to become an official contributor to the STEM community and get a degree in something along those lines. I’m constantly inspired by the unknown and thank people like you for educating millions of kids and giving us a safe space to come back to. :) I hope that despite the recent cuts in funding for transcending research that our capacity for wonder (loved the Anthropocene Reviewed btw, John) and compassion exceeds its antithesis. Thank you for reading this -Skylar
1 month ago (edited) | 301
Hey Hank, I can guarantee you that the research is definitely going to be done, unfortunately it won't be on US soil or with US money. It will be in other places for the foreseeable future.
1 month ago | 433
I feel like I dont know what to do. There's no evidence that a turning point is anywhere near the horizon. It feels like my entire life will be lived in a dark age of social and technological regression.
1 month ago | 131
"I don't understand it, so let's get rid of it!" Is the worst way to make policy ESPECIALLY for healthcare and science
1 month ago | 274
As someone with an autoimmune disorder that makes my body overreact to nothing and in turn tries to destroy itself, I'm counting the days until I can just get a treatment rather than a continued prescription that costs $2.5k a dose
1 month ago | 66
If they really cared about safety they’d be modifying the standards for testing and approving drugs. cutting all funding for a specific technology is proof of how uninformed the people making decisions and/or proof that all they care about is political wins. it’s really depressing.
1 month ago | 7
Gotta tell ya, it’s reallly difficult not holding bitterness towards my right-wing siblings already, but the fact that they “do their own research” for conspiracy theories about medicine while I’m the one dealing with multiple sclerosis is really pushing me. (Not to mention me being black and those particular siblings being white and staying radio silent about racism happening in our community, but that’s for another day.)
1 month ago | 240
I’ve worked on a few different mRNA clinical trials and they are miracles. Like there is no other word for it. The recoveries people make are astounding. It’s been a really hard few months for clinical research. I’ve seen studies that I know would save kids lives get their funding cut, many co-workers lose their jobs and research infrastructure get destroyed. I fear we’ve been set back decades.
1 month ago | 35
My first thought was, “okay, so! I guess fully-antibiotic-resistant syphilis is absolutely gonna be a giant problem, then”…. I am in a committed, monogamous, happy marriage of many years, so while no one is really safe, it’s less of a concern for ME personally, but I feel profound worry and grief for all the young people of the world right now. I remember coming of age in the “HIV is still a death sentence” years….and I also had to learn a lot about a time and place where syphilis was running rampant during an honors thesis I did. If you don’t know about what syphilis was like before antibiotics, please go read about it. It was so, so horrible, and the damage was broad, deep, diverse and inter generational. I had so many hopes that mRNA research might save the day. Thanks a lot, Trump.
1 month ago | 61
As a chemistry Ph.D; lots of funding for all science has been cut. And all the things that people want (solar tech, co2, high temp magnets) exist. What doesn’t exist is the economic investment.
1 month ago | 75
This, and the fact that he wants to put a 100% tariff on computer chips... he's not long for this world. I'm not threatening anything, just noting. He's pissed off every gamer, 4chan and reddit included, AND the Luigi types.
1 month ago (edited) | 18
On Chat GPT Look up pre-1989 vaccine schedule vs current one and look at the 600% increase in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases since then. Pharmaceutical companies don’t have your best interests in mind when they CANNOT be sued for malpractice.
1 month ago | 1
Hank Green
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
The reason it’s so powerful is that it turns /your body/ into the factory that makes the drug.
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