Do you consider depositing government-funded research into NCBI for free as information control? Barring all deposition of research into free non-governmental outlets would be a step far but I don't see value in allowing private companies to extract rent and control prestige currency.

US healthcare science has been devastated under RFK. However, it's unclear why we need to be paying such absurd publishing fees; moving towards at-cost publishing, without political connections into journals, would actually be much better for the scientific enterprise!

The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false.

The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.

I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper.

www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...

Totally valid and perhaps there's always been danger associated with any large gathering (such as terrorism) when neo-nazis feel comfortable marching on the street there's a larger risk to inaction, and the risks to safety will only get worse.

Agree, but in times like these, fearmongering and not attending protests only accelerates the transition to authoritarianism before it is actually too late.