Backlash to the idea was quick, with the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus immediately calling it “unethical.” “Allowing […]
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Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard
On Tuesday, the federal government’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced that it had terminated research grants to Harvard […]
Trump’s NIH ignored court order, cut research grants anyway
Officials testified that DOGE was directly involved in hundreds of grant terminations. For more than two months, the Trump administration […]
Trump’s 2026 budget proposal: Crippling cuts for science across the board
Budget document derides research and science-based policy as “woke,” “scams.” On Friday, the US Office of Management and Budget sent […]
Trump admin accused of censoring NIH’s top expert on ultra-processed foods
Hall claims that because of this, aides for Kennedy blocked him from being directly interviewed by New York Times reporters […]
RFK Jr.‘s bloodbath at HHS: Blowback grows as losses become clearer
Last week, Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the Trump administration would hack off nearly a […]
Report: US scientists lost $3 billion in NIH grants since Trump took office
Since Trump took office on January 20, research funding from the National Institutes of Health has plummeted by more than […]
“This will be a painful period”: RFK Jr. slashes 24% of US health dept.
Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slashing a total of 20,000 jobs across the Department of […]
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
Ars Technica has reached out to the NIH and HHS for comment and will update this story with any new […]
UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos
Many schools are now bracing for steep declines in support. At Duke University, administrators have implemented hiring freezes, scaled back […]