The destruction of NIH is worse than the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas

The destruction of NIH is in many ways worse than the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan , writes Howard PrePrePrePre.

PrePre pre-Pre-Winter storming of the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) is causing a great deal of havoc and despair among university-based scientists.

Pre-Winter : The loss of indirect costs will damage science.

Most investigators must keep three to five funded projects going simultaneously to stay afloat and cover payroll’ for their teams.

The costly infrastructures that rely, in part on the continued flow of large indirect payments from government-funding agencies tend to be concentrated at a minority of elite universities.