US Science Funding Crackdown: Biden's 'Give Up' Strategy for Researchers

The Biden administration's new policies are systematically undermining longstanding scientific research practices. Federal funding agencies like the NIH are facing grant freezes, while political appointees are adding new layers of project review targeting keywords like 'disparity' and 'marginalized'. International collaboration is being made increasingly difficult, raising concerns that the US is adopting a 'death by a thousand cuts' strategy to force scientists out of federally funded research. Columbia University biostatistics professor Daniel Malinsky warns this could stifle scientific progress. The move could also weaken the US's global scientific leadership in the long term.