Musk's approach to reducing the federal workforce is already showing significant negative consequences. I wish we could learn from history. 4/4

Now DOGE is indiscriminately firing groups of people without considering whether they have essential expertise. DOGE is discovering that it's difficult to recover essential expertise such as people staffing the nuclear arsenal and tracking bird flu developments. 3/4

Many people happily took the deal--so many in fact, that Boeing suddenly discovered it had lost significant expertise. The damage to Boeing's capabilities was evident. A number of friends who took the deal were invited back as contractors so the company could retain essential expertise. 2/4

Edit to add: Only one of the five has died. Apologies for the misinformation!

It's rewriting a hypothetical journal article, not a grant application. For demonstration purposes only.

Thanks. And yes, so sad that the USA's world-class science/medical infrastructure and workforce is being randomly decimated.

Even though the [women] participants with 2 X chromosomes responded better, the lack of [diversity] differences in genetic, genomic, and epigenetic characteristics in the study population means the results cannot be applied to people in general. 3/3

Half of the group was male, the other half [was female] had two X chromosomes. The results may be [biased] tilted because all participants lived within one mile of the Major Cancer [Research] Analysis Center. 2/3