@PeterHotez: America is eating its young. We’re a nation built on the greatness of our research universities, it’s what gave us the …
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Peter Hotez criticizes the erosion of support for U.S. research universities, citing MIT's 20% reduction in graduate students as a threat to the next generation of scientists.
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America is eating its young. We’re a nation built on the greatness of our research universities, it’s what gave us the Manhattan Project, victory in the Cold War, over HIV/AIDS. Our future depends on a robust NextGen of scientists. But we traded it for wellness influencers, climate denialists, and phony MAHA ideologies that more resemble a twisted Lysenko version of Stalinist Russia in the 1930s and 40s
Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee): MIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students”
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