It is worse than just the international scientific community correctly identifying that science in the US is being actively dismantled by openly hostile forces with violence, it is that the interruption and dismantling of these systems, especially given the lackluster attention the US public puts into funding Science in the US, has locked in the longterm damage already. The battle is already far past lost and honestly it is infuriating sitting here watching people not yet coming to terms with that because they still have magical positive thinking around how politics intersects with Science in 2026.

The destruction of the vital systems of Science is not something that simply can be restarted, the US will never recover in the realm of Science, the damage is already too severe. To explain why is to have to explain every single Scientific endeavor that relies upon a basic social safety net and an enveloping societal valuing of the desire to understand the world as it is, which is most of them. Temporarily stopping the heart of Science in the US is as fatal as permanently stopping it, that is how the organ of Science functions in modern societies.

As someone who got a degree in a Science, I honestly find it insulting that people think the heart of Science can stop in the US for awhile and just be restarted at a later date. It was a living thing and now it is dead. That is why we were making such a desperate noise about all of this stuff actually, maybe people should have been listening harder?

I dont even want to eat your food. Full of toxins.