The President has outlined a plan to significantly scale back NIH funding along with major restructuring. What will this mean for America and the scientific community?
We, as collective stewards of the government/NIH largesse, have not only been bad at money and personnel management, but we’ve allowed common criminals, fraudulent actors, censors, and grifters (e.g. : Former Dean USC-Keck SoM, current Dean of SoM UCLA , Former Department Chair Stanford Department of Medicine, former President of Stanford respectively) to ascend to the roles that are most cherished in our profession.
That has denigrated not only our profession, but has provoked a (deserved) public backlash.
And let’s be clear about the accomplishments that you cite of the research enterprise.
Most of those are NOT attributable to administrative leaders within our profession. In other words, there’s a significant chasm between what constitutes “scientific success”, versus success in life.
It seems that being successful in life within the context of medical sciences requires a transition out of science, and that’s at the crux of the lamentations you write about.
An alternative viewpoint.
We, as collective stewards of the government/NIH largesse, have not only been bad at money and personnel management, but we’ve allowed common criminals, fraudulent actors, censors, and grifters (e.g. : Former Dean USC-Keck SoM, current Dean of SoM UCLA , Former Department Chair Stanford Department of Medicine, former President of Stanford respectively) to ascend to the roles that are most cherished in our profession.
That has denigrated not only our profession, but has provoked a (deserved) public backlash.
And let’s be clear about the accomplishments that you cite of the research enterprise.
Most of those are NOT attributable to administrative leaders within our profession. In other words, there’s a significant chasm between what constitutes “scientific success”, versus success in life.
It seems that being successful in life within the context of medical sciences requires a transition out of science, and that’s at the crux of the lamentations you write about.
Raj K Batra.