“A 25 percent reduction in public R&D spending would reduce GDP by … [an effect] comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession.”

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Meanwhile the government is proposing a 44% cut to the NIH

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This is deceptive. For comparison consider Turkey and Hungry, which epitomize competitive authoritarianism today. Both have lower indices of liberal democracy in 2025 than pre 1970 US.

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