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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

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133 points yowzadave | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 22:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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JSR_FDED ◴[03 Jul 25 00:46 UTC] No.44450430[source]▶
The value destruction is mind blowing. The fact that it’s deliberate I just can’t wrap my head around.
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msgodel[dead post] ◴[03 Jul 25 00:51 UTC] No.44450461[source]▶
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rybosome ◴[03 Jul 25 01:00 UTC] No.44450536[source]▶
I cannot for the life of me think of what you are referring to.

If it’s COVID-related mandates like vaccines and lockdowns, then surely it’s obvious that NASA had nothing to do with that?

There is no single issue that I can see linking all of these science organizations together. Even if it’s about budget, there are bigger targets.

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SailingCactus33 ◴[03 Jul 25 01:23 UTC] No.44450671[source]▶
They went off mission. Here is a NASA example that might help linking it together: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11457489/
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1. dahart ◴[03 Jul 25 14:09 UTC] No.44455256[source]▶
I’m confused by this comment, do you want to elaborate? Only the thirteenth author has an association with NASA at all, and that author lists two associations. This paper is primarily from U. Maryland and MIT. Why do you feel like this paper reflects to any significant degree on NASA’s mission?

What is NASA’s mission in your mind? What is the point of what they’re doing if not to use science and the knowledge resulting from practicing science to benefit humanity? NASA’s web pages, for one, do happen to say exactly that in multiple ways. Is there some congressional funding agreement you’re aware of that limits or prevents NASA from engaging in certain scientific topics?

Also what problem do have with this paper? It seems like it’s saying something that’s widely known and non-controversial. It maybe adds new kinds of data and support to the thing we already knew, but it’s largely a meta review of many other papers that also demonstrate what we already know, that it’s common for poorer people to live in worse conditions than richer people.