*** “Research to improve the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy – CANCELED”
*** “Study to improve childhood cancer survival rates in low-resource hospitals – CANCELED”
***. “Development of a new technique for colorectal cancer prevention – CANCELED”
***. “Project to analyze premalignant breast tissue in high-risk women-CANCELED”
{NOTE: the list above is SOME of American medical research CANCELED by the “Project 2025” controlled Trump DICTATORSHIP – in order to achieve tax cuts for obscenely rich billionaires and achieve WACKO ideological goals. When YOU figure out how this kind of STUPIDITY. will “..promote the general Welfare..” perhaps YOU can tell America – especially surviving relatives of dead children, dead mothers, dead Americans.]
***. “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” [ Margaret Atwood ]
This post provides excerpts from Jonathan Mahler’s. “The War on the War on Cancer…How the 50-year campaign to saver millions of lives was dismantled in six months” [ New York Times Magazine; 9/14/25 ]:
4] “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,’ Lauer told me. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do…Project 2025 had called for the new administration to cut reimbursement rates….”We could lose a generation of scientists in a very short time.”
8] “It’s too early to predict what the ongoing dismantling of America’s cancer-research system is going to cost us – what life-saving, life-extending or life-improving treatments will be slower to develop, if they develop at all.”
*** “Authority has always attracted the lowest elements of the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum.” [ p.J. O’Rourke ]
1]. “..Sirianni started hearing rumors that ..[Trump].. was planning to disrupt the N.I.H.’s grant-making process..his administration ordered the N.I.H. to cancel meetings to consider pending grant applications….ordered the N.I.H. to temporarily cease all external communications….In a matter of months, the Trump administration has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in cancer-related research grants and contracts…has terminated hundreds of government employees who helped lead the country’s cancer-research system and ensured that new discoveries reached clinicians.”
2] “..Trump made a less ambitious attempt to defund America’s scientific research system during his first term…Congress flatly rejected both efforts…But a very different attitude toward American science now prevails on the right wing of American politics…..This force has become institutionalized in Trump’s second administration.”
3] ‘..this has been a deliberate and targeted attack. “They have studied how N.I.H. works, studied it hard and learned well”…”And they have put sand in the gears in ways that are very effective, devastating.”
*** “We are dominated by the fanatic, whose worse vice is his sincerity.” [ Oscar Wilde ]
5] “Before scientists could figure out how to defeat cancer, they first had to learn how little they knew about its biology, starting with the fact that it was not a single disease but an infinite number of them..don’t just originate in different parts of the body. but also behave differently in different people. The process took decades and is ongoing…accumulated knowledge…begin to yield transformative treatments…..It now reaches into just about every medical specialty….This progress is a validation of a slow but patient process that requires time – and the gradual accretion of shared knowledge..”
6] “America’s investment in cancer research has rippled out far beyond cancer…..When the Covid pandemic struck, technologies that had been developed for cancer enabled scientists to quickly sequence the virus and then develop a vaccine for it.””
***. “A dogma…an indisputable confession of faith, is set up only when the aim is to suppress doubts once and for all. But it no longer has anything to do with scientific judgment; only with a personal power drive.” [ Carl Jung ]
7] “The system was designed to be insulated from politics….Tearing down the system, then, would require moving quickly and aggressively, taking control from the top down….The administration was much better prepared to accomplish this during Trump’s second term..Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office of Management and Budget and the primary architect of the attack on biomedical-research system, spent the Biden tears getting ready for this moment…He and the new administration began executing their plan on Trump’s first full day in office.”
9] “Other countries are seeing opportunity in the chaos. Varmus is among a number of prominent U.S. scientists who have received solicitations from the governments of France and Spain to consider relocating there. America’s 80-year run as the world’s leader of biomedical research – and a 50-year run as the global leader of cancer research – may very well be coming to a close.”
10] “WE are great in science,’ he said. “Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?”
*** “Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.” [ Laurens van der Post ]
With Justice For All 